tessy
Jan 13, 2007, 04:28 PM
Over the holidays my father informs us that he has been seeing someone for a few months now and is leaving my mother and little brother. My mom don't work and hasn't for years being a stay at home mom and she don't drive either.
My father wants me, hubby and 2 kids ages 3&5 to move in with my mother and brother to help pay bills and get her on her feet. This angers me because I don't want to have to leave and squeeze our family and all our belonging in their 3 bedroom duplex.
Mom wants to go back to school and get a teaching degree so she won't be working much until after that. Dad says he's going to support them them until she can on her own but I don't believe that because I know how my father is and once we move in there we won't hear from him no longer and my husband will be left to support them and us off a very low carpenters income!
I don't work and won't until my 3yr old starts prek and I feel this is not hubbys responsibility to support them. They are my family and I want to be there for them and I would take care of them in a heartbeat if I worked. But I'm torn I don't know what to do. Mom keeps reasuring me she'll be fine but I don't know how she plans on beginning to take care of herself.
What do you guys think, is putting my personal wants and fears first selfish? Or should I let them sort through it themselves?
My father wants me, hubby and 2 kids ages 3&5 to move in with my mother and brother to help pay bills and get her on her feet. This angers me because I don't want to have to leave and squeeze our family and all our belonging in their 3 bedroom duplex.
Mom wants to go back to school and get a teaching degree so she won't be working much until after that. Dad says he's going to support them them until she can on her own but I don't believe that because I know how my father is and once we move in there we won't hear from him no longer and my husband will be left to support them and us off a very low carpenters income!
I don't work and won't until my 3yr old starts prek and I feel this is not hubbys responsibility to support them. They are my family and I want to be there for them and I would take care of them in a heartbeat if I worked. But I'm torn I don't know what to do. Mom keeps reasuring me she'll be fine but I don't know how she plans on beginning to take care of herself.
What do you guys think, is putting my personal wants and fears first selfish? Or should I let them sort through it themselves?