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My mom is kind of giving up on her career field and is depending on me to fund essentially everything for her.

Now, a little bit of background.

I don't have any brothers and sisters and my parents

uh divorce early on how old is your mother uh she's 52 and so you're supposed to support

this 52 year old woman for the rest of her life who doesn't want to work much.

Well, the thing that's happened is essentially she worked at a university.

She went to school, got her Ph.D., and was really trying to break into the medical field with her doctorate, and she just wasn't able to get a job.

And so now, you know, it's going on about a year and a half now where she essentially

hasn't had a job and has been, was using all of her, I guess, money that she had saved.

Pretty irresponsible for somebody smart enough to get a Ph.D.

What's her degree in?

Medical research. She was working. She actually was doing some sort of job at the CDC during COVID

that was, you know, an assignment for, I think, six months or something like that.

But before that, she was working with infectious disease in...

Okay. Here's the deal.

Does she have her name on your checking account?

No.

Okay. She can only get money if you give it to her.

That is correct.

And so she can't take it from you, she can't steal it from you, she can just ask you for it.

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