Topic : 03/27 "Get Your Act Together!"

I am glad that you are airing this show again, if my in-laws missed it the first time, maybe they will see it this time.  My husband's brother is going to be 34 and still living at home, and even drives his mothers car because "his truck is so old". 

My husband and I choose to look at this maddness as that we are the lucky ones not him!! 

The problem that I have is that my husband is out of work for a second time in two years, both compainies told him it was "not his fault, he did a great job".  We made it last time with little help (we relocated to a city where my parents live and they let my husband live there for $35.00 per week).  We are making it fine this time too, but the problem is my husbands mother gets him on the phone and tries to tell him what he should be doing to get a job and tells him she hopes that he has enough in his retirement to pay for us to live etc.  She wants him to take a "dead end" job.  My husband is not his brother he is very ambitious and smart and likes to exceed in life.  He wants to do something that he enjoys not just go get the pay check. 

With all that she  says to him we are almost being punished and verbally abused for actually doing things the right way.  His parents need to be needed and we are the types that make it on our own or don't make it at all.

The strange thing is that if you ask them they love the fact that their son lives there and would not have it any other way.

Don't gripe!! Canning (in the Summertime) and defrosting the freezer...what...maybe once or twice a year...is pretty cheap labor in exchange for living for free!

Get your OWN tv if you want to watch figure skating....or, get real and get your OWN place!

    Afraid,

      I am the only one living with my parents here in my entire county in southern Idaho.  I know this because when I had the nerve to apply for food stamps, they told me so.   The county insists I work part-time.  They always bring up the subject that I have placed myself in a severe financial bind.

     I'm glad to hear that your sisters are pleased that you are there.  My situation is a little different.  My sister lives alone, three miles away.  She has her own home and yard.  It is very important to her that she doesn't live here.  Both of my  brothers are married.  Their wives, my sisters-in-law, are concerned that I am going to inherit the house and leave them with nothing.  

    I got in trouble here on the message board because Easter came the same weekend as the World Championship in figure skating. I have inherited the problem of being hostess at all family gatherings.  Do you have that problem, too?  When my sister and her family show up, they are important company.  My sister expects to be waited on.  I am supposed to forget that Johnny Weir is in second place after the short program and listen to all her problems.  She has a whole bunch.  Sometimes, she does politely ask me what I am doing.  We have had rows because she is not interested in the things I am interested in.

Normally, I tell her I am fine.           

People can only do to you what you allow them to do!!

If you let these moochers back into your home again for even ONE DAY, then you are beyond stupid and deserve whatever you get. No one can "refuse" to leave; it's your house. Throw them and their crap right out the door, shut and lock it and call the police if they don't move on down the road! The best solution, of course, is to not to allow them in your home in the first place! 

Simple.