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Today's question comes from Victoria in Kansas. Victoria asks, my son is 21 and has been living with his girlfriend since they graduated high school. She's taken over his life and money to the point that he has cut off contact with me three times.

She grew up... Oh man.

Already she stepped in it.

She grew up with limited means and I was a single parent but did well financially.

I showed him how to save money and be frugal.

I raised him to earn the things he wanted.

Before cutting off contact with me this time,

he said that they have leased brand new matching cars and he now has

credit cards to build credit at this time if anything were to happen to me i would not feel comfortable

leaving him any of my assets this girl has driven a wedge between us and i don't want her to have a

single red scent of my hard-earned money i fear he will give her everything any advice on how to get him

to come home and if he doesn't should I go ahead and remove him from my will?

Oh.

Yeesh.

All right.

So a couple of things here.

Dave's talked about this pretty eloquently, and I won't be as eloquent.

But when your son's 21 and he moves out you are now in the influence business not in

the dictation business in the dictator business when you have a 16 year old in your house you can

kind of say here's what you're going to do right when they're 21 and they've moved in with a

romantic partner and they're out they don't have to do what you say so vict, Victoria, you worked really hard. Single house, single mom,

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