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My mom is 67 and currently living on Social Security.

She is married to my stepfather, and they both had pretty major surgeries this year my mom had a

back surgery and my stepdad had open heart surgery and they can't really work right now.

They bring home about $4,400 a month.

But I recently, she started like being short on things and finally I kind of asked to look at her finances and she has

$51,000 in credit card debt. She has zero savings, like literally zero. She has never

really been really good at money. She's lost two houses and filed bankruptcy before. I'm currently debt free after following baby steps, but I'm worth, um,

with my husband about $1.8 million.

And, um, she knows that I have money.

And so she keeps calling me and expecting me to help.

And I, I've, I kind of put all of her stuff into a budget for her and she keeps overspending

you know she'll show or door dash or something and then wonder why she's short every month

and so I'm trying to figure out how to kind of get it through to her that that like she has to

stop and I you know I've talked to my husband and we we just like

don't feel like helping her. Sure yeah what about your stepdad what's his role what's his

role in all this I mean they're both equally terrible at money just generally speaking and so

you know she's asked me to buy her a house and she's asked me to do

like all of these things. And I'm like, we can't do that. Like that's... Oh, this is extreme.

This is far worse than I asked my buddies for nachos, not a house. Oh, boy. And how long have they been

married? They've been married since I was five. Okay. So this is not like, oh, this is kind of new.

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