• 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Running on the assumption this is authentic and heterosexual, Anon’s parents massively dropped the ball creating an adult with no will to fly the coop. But then to cut them off cold turkey is totally fucked up. Anon is now permanently 15 years behind their peers. Not to mention zero retirement savings. That compounded interest takes 30-35 years to really start to matter. But Anon gets to miss out on 15 years of that, too.

    I really hope things work out in the end.

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      1 month ago

      My wife’s cousin is in a similar situation. She never left home or got a job or a driver’s license because she was always too scared, and her mom always let that slide, since she didn’t want to make her daughter scared or uncomfortable.

      She thought her job was to protect her daughter from all the stresses of the world until she was ready, but failed to understand that she won’t be ready until she’s experienced some of those stresses in a controlled environment like most kids do when they’re in their teens and their parents push them to get a job and a license.

      It came from a place of kindness, but ended up being a major mistake that now both the kid and the parent are paying for.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        A big reason why the western idea of every single person should always leave home and start a new household is fucking retarded. Its not the right fit for everyone. Hell its objectively fucking stupid in the VAST majority of cases. Many do it any ways for various reasons. But the whole normality of it being “the only correct way to live” needs to fucking die.

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          1 month ago

          I’ll take your thought process a step further here. I blame parents who raise children that dont leave for having children in the first place. Stop having children. Spay and neuter yourself. BOGO vasectomies for the people! Lol. Sorry, this one got a little away from me.

          • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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            24 days ago

            “I got a dog and kept it for 5 and a half years. Now I’ve had enough, and am kicking the dog out of my house. Time to live in the real world dog! I am a good dog owner.”

            I believe parents should be ready to care for their children forever. Not only for disabled and handicapped kids, all of them. It should be a surprise a kid moves out.

            That or suicide should be a selfless and honorable act. Since there isnt enough for everyone in the world, people who kill themselves are heros who are saving precious resources for those in need. A higher honor then military veterans.

            You dont get to force people to exist, tell them to fucking shut up and get good, and also make suicide taboo. This life is your fault, deal with the problem you made. Being born is a consentless affair. Raped into life, forced into wage slavery, awaiting the relief of death.

            Dont like it? Dont fucking have any kids deadbeats.

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      1 month ago

      Again, assuming this has any basis in reality, I think it’s likely that the parents have made many attempts to get the guy to change before and this is the last resort. They probably didn’t wait 38 years and then one day just decided “this is it”.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        yeah, this is likely more a case of fighting/ignoring mom and dad and them finally bringing down the banhammer.

        or maybe mom and dad want to fucking retire… god forbid! since if he is 38 they are most likely 65+

        • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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          24 days ago

          yeah, this is likely more a case of fighting/ignoring mom and dad and them finally bringing down the banhammer

          The ban hammer is contraception. But of course mommy and daddy love it raw. Now its your problem.

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        1 month ago

        in that case you arrange for a bachelor apartment for the guy. hes a human being after all.

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          1 month ago

          The dude is 38 and never got off his ass. How long are you going to enable this? They already did for two decades.

          His parents are almost certainly 65+ and cannot afford to support themselves and a leech.

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            24 days ago

            Maybe his parents should pull up their bootstraps and get two part time Walmart greeter jobs on opposite ends of town.

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      1 month ago

      Even worse they raised a kid with no will to fly the coop AND they rejected a intergrated multigenerational house hold.

      Most cultures on earth and for most of history you lived with your family your entire life, or moved to another house hold. To start a new household was abnormal.

      So you either need to raise your kid to the new standard to want to stand on their own and start their own household. Or you embrace the old and stay together and create a multigenerational household.

      To do neither is objectively abuse.