What's Wrong With Your Parents?
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🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.7 | So I have a question for you. I'm in college now, and I just, I'm starting my sophomore year. |
| 0:13.2 | My siblings, my parents have been, took money for me in high school as like borrowing it to supplement their income and then just didn't pay it |
| 0:23.2 | back and now they're doing it for my siblings. How much money did you have in high school? |
| 0:29.0 | I had, well, I was making about $5,000 to $8,000 a year just working part-time and then full-time |
| 0:36.0 | during the summers. How much money did they take from you? About $3,000 a year just working part-time and then full-time during the summers. How much money did they take from you? |
| 0:39.6 | About $3,000 total before I could get my own bank account and then all my money is in there now. |
| 0:47.8 | And you said you're off at school now? |
| 0:51.2 | Yeah, I'm in college now, so I have my own bank accounts. |
| 0:53.7 | It's all separate. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm good. You're how old? You're how old? I'm 19. Okay. Wow. I'm sorry. And now that's happening to your little brothers and sisters. Okay. Financial abuse. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What's wrong with your parents? That's so i mean i think they i mean we've had some |
| 1:15.5 | issues what happened where um the mom had an injury that's been working through like a like a legal |
| 1:21.2 | case or whatever and stuff and they just she lost her job and so they've just been running on |
| 1:26.2 | not much but like it's okay you know |
| 1:29.0 | I get if you know they pay you back in something a month or two or something like that but |
| 1:32.6 | when they spend years it's really not okay I mean grownups don't take kids money that's just |
| 1:38.4 | not okay for any reason to borrow or otherwise it's just wrong I mean there's just something |
| 1:43.7 | wrong with the family |
| 1:44.4 | script isn't there yeah so i don't i'm just wondering your advice because i'm i'm okay now but um |
| 1:52.0 | i just want to know what your thoughts i because they're they're smart they're going to be |
| 1:56.0 | successful but you know when they're trying to get ready to you know go into college or get their first car it's like you know how are they're trying to get ready to, you know, go into college or get their first car, it's like, you know, how are they supposed to do this? |
| 2:06.0 | Wow. That's a tough situation. I'm sitting here thinking through this because they can't try to, any ideas that I had, |
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