My family.
By chrislotz
@chrislotz (8136)
Canada
July 26, 2008 1:16pm CST
My mother just sold her house and is moving into a senior citizens home and here is my dilemma. Why do my brother and sisters expect her to do everything herself and not help her. I live in a different city from her, 1400KM away, and I got a phone call from her this morning. She was so upset she was crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said that she has to be moved by next Wednesday and no one is helping her to pack and to get rid of stuff that she doesn't want to move with her. She has a few truck loads of stuff that needs to be taken to the dump and nobody, my siblings, has the time to help her do that. Most of my brothers and sisters have trucks so they could do it, but they just don't have the time to, as they say. So I phoned my ex-husband and asked him to help her today and he said no problem. He got a friend of his and they are going to my mom's now as I speak, to haul all the junk to the dump.
Why do my siblings not help her, they say they are too busy. My mom is giving us, 7 kids, most of the money from the sale of her house, because she can't have that much money when she moves or the government will take some of it, that is just the way it works when you move into a government sponsered senior citizen home. So she is allowed to give us kids most of the money before she moves, as per the agent she spoke to with the government. She is giving us each 15 thousand dollars at the end of August so why would my family not help her move since it benefits them all? Greed is what I call it. I wish I was there to help her but since I can't be I am glad that my ex-husband is helping her.
Do you have a family like this? Just greed and no help?
1 response
@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
26 Jul 08
That is a crying shame that your siblings won't help their own mother especially since she is giving them so much money! I think they should be ashamed of themselves. that is totally selfish. "too busy" is a copout and a load pooey. they should be helping regardless of whether they were getting money or not. it is something they should oo cause it is thier mother.
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@chrislotz (8136)
• Canada
26 Jul 08
Thank you, I am glad to see that it is not me that thinks this is wrong. I have phoned my one sister and asked her to help her, but she says she can't because she is going golfing. What is that, like she can't go golfing another day. I kind of told her off and now she is mad at me. Oh well, whatever. I just hope my ex-husband helps my mom and gets it all hauled away, not just one load because I am sure there is about 3 or 4 loads to go to the dump.
I probably should phone some of my other brothers and sisters, but I don;t want to start any fights so I will just leave it alone for now, and hope that it all gets done by my ex. I think this is really nice of him to help my mom. After all she was his mother in law for the last 19 years and just because we broke up 4 months ago, he still cares about her.
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