In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who isn't sure how to split care duties with their siblings when it comes to their aging parents.
In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who isn't sure how to split care duties with their siblings when it comes to their aging parents.
How do senior siblings sort out who should do what for other senior siblings, parents and needy younger relatives? Does it matter if some need help because of risky or harmful life choices? I’m being vague so my siblings don’t recognize me.Every family has to come up with their own metric for providing care to each other. Many do it automatically, though that can result in a family situation where one member is expected to take on more than is fair, simply because she spoke up or is good at it.
Reading between the lines of your question , I’d guess that you are weighing your obligation to family against a feeling that they’ve brought their misfortune on themselves. Here’s where I come down on it, having spelunked comfortably into the bottom of the question cavern: people we love make mistakes sometimes. We can choose to watch them suffer in service of learning a lesson, or we can offer help to fix things. Attempting to do both at once rarely works.Asking Eric: We saved a college fund for our teen son, but plans have changedAsking Eric: My brother died and my nephew is lashing out.
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