A young lady wants to know if she’s doing the right thing by refusing to help her parents financially because they always belittle her.
Read her post below:
My parents hate my job and always called it “playing on the computer”. I’m a UI developer and I’m also a woman so they consider it an inappropriate industry for me.
My brother works as a teller at the bank which they brag about to their friends has their son is a banker.
I’ve always done better than my brother in school, sports, etc but my parents always see him as better because he’s a boy.
So I’ve reduced my contact especially since they are getting pushy with me for not being married at 27.
Last year, my father lost his job due to a round of layoffs and then suffered a ton of health problems.
My mother has never worked and can’t speak very good English so she isn’t able to work. And their house isn’t paid off so now they are at risk of losing their house.
My parents had to ask my brother for rent and he pays about $400 a month. But their mortgage and other expenses comes to be around $1800 a month and they still can’t afford it.
So they have asked me for help and I’ve told them no. I can afford it because I make six figures but I’m still bitter about being treated like a second class citizen since I was a child because I’m a girl.
I told them to charge my brother more for rent and they told me he has a girlfriend and needs to be able to enjoy himself.
I told them that they can figure out their own way to pay for it and they are pissed because they think I need to help them because they raised me.
AITA for refusing to help my parents financially?
