Current dilemma: Olsen doesn’t want to live at home with her family anymore because she’s a mature college student now. But she can’t support herself on her little income AND be a full time student. I bought her a car. I pay her tuition. Do I also have to pay her rent? And why should I, when she has a free place to live in my house, which is less than a 30 minute drive to her school?
I struggle a lot with my financial relationship with my children. I don’t want them to be without anything. It’s a maternal instinct maybe? But I also don’t want to buy them everything. I’m fortunate to be in a good income situation, but I don’t want then to grow up thinking any time they need something they can just ask me to buy it for them.
I guess I’m looking for suggestions from people that have been through this. Do I come up with certain conditions? Not more than a certain amount? She must have at least 1 roommate? At least 2? I pay rent but she pays all her utilities? I can think of all kinds of things as I ponder it now.
Or do I just say no? I’m not against that option. She has a free place to live and that’s all she gets until she can afford to pay her own rent herself. I don’t charge her rent to live at home, and I know some parents do that.
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