Dear Care and Feeding: My mom was so wretched, I kept wondering why we'd even bothered to visit.
We have three grown children. Our older daughter has three children from two failed marriages. We have always helped her out, financially and emotionally, from the time she got pregnant in college and had her first child, who’s now 12. Her second marriage has recently fallen apart, and we find ourselves constantly on call. Although always self-involved, she used to show appreciation and was pleasant to be with.
I feel tough love is needed, but in the past, when she is upset with us, she cuts contact with the kids until she is desperate for babysitting again.She cannot support her kids on her own, even with a decent job. Husband 1 pays child support but it’s minimal, husband 2 takes the boys a couple of days a week and pays nothing. She complains all the time, acting like she’s a single parent with no support, but she dumps the kids on us and goes out or works late all the time.
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