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Speaker 2: one today. Meghan is called in with quite the predicament. Meghan, Hi, guys,
Speaker 2: tell us what's going down.
Speaker 3: My daughter's twenty one. She's just got her first full
Speaker 3: time job. You know, she's doing well. We're really proud
Speaker 3: of her. But look, as you would know, time's are
Speaker 3: tough at the moment. Seems a really expensive, you know,
Speaker 3: our interest rates, everything's gone up. So we're basically asked
Speaker 3: her to start paying rent and it's only one hundred
Speaker 3: dollars a week. We think that's pretty fair. It's just
Speaker 3: caused major grief in our household at the moment. Her
Speaker 3: argument is, we didn't ask her, you know, her brothers
Speaker 3: and sisters to pay rent when they lived with us,
Speaker 3: and to be fair, we didn't, but that was a
Speaker 3: long time ago. Things have changed, living pressures, costs. It's
Speaker 3: just it's so expensive at the moment, and she's refusing
Speaker 3: to pay the rent. And I guess the question is,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure other parents who have kids living at
Speaker 3: home are going through the same thing. I'm like, I
Speaker 3: think you need to move out it you've got to
Speaker 3: pay rent. My hubby's so soft on her. He's sort of,
Speaker 3: you know, avoiding the question. He's actually even had to
Speaker 3: sort of start doing some uber driving on the site.
Speaker 3: How old it's a lot.
Speaker 2: How old were your other kids when they moved out
Speaker 2: of home? You said your daughter's twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: How old were you have two other children and one other.
Speaker 3: Child two one was nineteen and one was twenty.
Speaker 2: So she's stayed longer.
Speaker 3: She has she has and look, that's okay. We love
Speaker 3: having her, We love having her at home. It's wonderful
Speaker 3: and it's really hard for kids these days to get
Speaker 3: a start trying to say for a home. I get
Speaker 3: all that, but it's really causing grace with us. She
Speaker 3: makes pretty good money and she's just refusing.
Speaker 4: I'm going to be pretty brutal here. If she has
Speaker 4: a problem as an adult working a full time job
Speaker 4: with paying one hundred dollars a week.
Speaker 1: Let her move out.
Speaker 4: I can guarantee you she'll realize pretty quickly that one
Speaker 4: hundred dollars a week is a really good deal. I
Speaker 4: don't think there is anything wrong with you asking your
Speaker 4: adult child who lives at home to contribute one hundred
Speaker 4: dollars a week. I'm one hundred percent on your side.
Speaker 2: When I first heard this, my thought was, oh, well,
Speaker 2: if you didn't do it for the older children, it's
Speaker 2: probably there probably feels like to her there's some favoritism.
Speaker 2: That's how I would interpret it. She's already lived there longer.
Speaker 2: She's already had the grace period that they had, which
Speaker 2: should be your argument back. And I'm I mean, originally
Speaker 2: I was kind of like, oh, I don't know, maybe kids.
Speaker 2: I'm with you as well, Britt, I mean to change.
Speaker 2: What is what's she saying when she says I'm not
Speaker 2: paying it? Does she pay her phone bill? Does she
Speaker 2: pay all for the other the other expenses that she
Speaker 2: has for her own life while she's living in your house?
Speaker 3: She covers her bills for that sort of stuff like
Speaker 3: her personal expenses, and that's fine, but I just think
Speaker 3: I just don't think one hundred dollars a week is
Speaker 3: that much.
Speaker 1: Megan. I am going to have the differing opinion here
Speaker 1: in this situation. I think she should be paying rent
Speaker 1: because the parents are struggling, and Meghan, you need the help,
Speaker 1: and she's living off the land, and she's twenty one,
Speaker 1: she's an adult. However, my opinion over arching is you
Speaker 1: should not have to pay rent if you're living at
Speaker 1: home and it is not a dire situation and money
Speaker 1: isn't needed. Help out because that is what you should
Speaker 1: do as a loving, as a normal, compassionate, empathetic post.
Speaker 4: No, because in addition to this, I have two other things,
Speaker 4: and I get I'm quite angry about this, right.
Speaker 1: I don't feel that. Yeah, I have two things to.
Speaker 4: Say about this one. The world doesn't work like that.
Speaker 4: You have to make your own way. She's probably lucky
Speaker 4: she can get away with one hundred dollars a week.
Speaker 4: It's also character building. You can't be cushioned your whole life.
Speaker 4: You have to know that it can be a brutal
Speaker 4: world out there too. They had their children. We weren't
Speaker 4: about to go into a recession. We have inflation, we
Speaker 4: have cost of living that's gone up. I'm sure the
Speaker 4: parents aren't asking for money because they just want to oh,
Speaker 4: I want to make life harder for my daughter. No,
Speaker 4: they're asking because they genuinely need a contribution to keep
Speaker 4: the house.
Speaker 1: I agree in this situation, yes, but there are many
Speaker 1: families that I want to teach my kid how life works.
Speaker 1: You pay rent. No, you brought them into this world.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's fair.
Speaker 2: I think that this is a very different situation. And
Speaker 2: if your husband is having to go and work another
Speaker 2: job on top of his job, if he's doing uber
Speaker 2: driving in order to make ends meet, and your daughter
Speaker 2: has this disposable income that she is earning but has
Speaker 2: absolutely no expenses because they're covered by her then as
Speaker 2: a twenty one year old, I think she's being selfish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're all in a green sea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think you should hold your ground and
Speaker 2: tell you're happy to stop being yourself Donner.
Speaker 4: I would she took so long, I'd up at one fifty.
Speaker 1: Inflation.
Speaker 2: We feel you met on your.
Speaker 1: Side, Megan. We appreciate it. If you want to get
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