General Discussion - November 09, 2018

Huge incoming family rant. I had a fight with my mum. I am 24 and my dad has been sustaining us (a family of 4) ever since I've been born. He's still paying the loan for our house and land, and pays the bills and groceries every month. I started chipping in when I got a job. In my country, kids don't move out until they get married, and life is kind of expensive but salaries are really low (I make around $571 a month).

Well, my mum keeps going on about how my dad never has money when there's stuff that needs to be bought or that he doesn't want to take more loans because he keeps all his money to himself. Ever since I started earning, I have realised that it takes A LOT to provide for 4 people (my brother doesn't work) while paying off 2 big loans. My mum started working around 7 years back and doesn't contribute at home (she did take a loan to help me travel once, and bought me a wardrobe when mine was broken). She also forced my dad to take a loan to pay for my brother's studies (studies that he dropped after 2 years).

So, the last 2 times she complained about my dad being a miser, I told her that he must be out of money given that he provides for us and I'm the only one helping. She got mad about me saying that she doesn't provide at home, and said that cooking, washing clothes and cleaning the house count as providing for us. I told her that my father does his part in that as well as he goes out to buy groceries and does the dishes. She brought up the fact that she bought me a wardrobe and took a loan and told me I was ungrateful and wrong for jumping to my dad's defence. She sarcastically added "If you want to contribute, go ahead and do it". Upon me saying that I already did (I pay for the internet and TV), she said "well, it's you guys who use the internet the most anyway", when in fact she does too, and watches TV more than us.

Now she isn't speaking to me, and told my brother she'd stop watching TV... I really want to move out, but seems like I'm stuck at home in this toxic place, and sometimes I just feel like ending it all.

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