Title of the Piece: mo money mo problems...erm, that should be NO money...

Painted at 4:54 p.m. on 2007-10-12

I’m beginning to think that being financially comfortable is just a dream. Between my mom not being able to pay her bills, my mortgage going up $500, and now finding out that my dad and his wife aren’t doing that well, I’m feeling a bit deflated, and that’s putting it gently.

I’m actually quite frustrated with my dad’s wife. Ok, she is sick (arthritis…only 36) but before they got married she worked. Suddenly they’re married, she’s no longer working at the vet clinic, but is now a Tupperware lady. Tupperware lasted all of 3 months and as far as I know, she’s a pet sitter now. She also has a 16 year-old daughter. So, my dad has to pay child support for one brother still and has been paying one student loan for my sister. Sister gets an email from wife that says they can no longer afford her student loan and can she start paying it- but! She is not allowed to tell our dad (or me) that she is asking Sister to do this. If our dad knew, he’d leave her. I’m frustrated because a) she’s not working b) suddenly our dad has to take care of her and her daughter, but not my Sister? And c) it just seems really manipulative to me to say ‘don’t tell your dad or he’ll leave me’. I just don’t like it. I guess she gave Sister quite the rundown of their financial situation and how/why they’re poor. I know wife can be dramatic sometimes and I think this is one of those times, but she’s already sent the paperwork to Sister so she can start paying up. And I mean, Sister and I get it… fine, fair that she has to pay her loan back, I just don’t like that wife won’t talk to our dad about it and says we can’t either. And he was paying it just fine before they got married. I don’t want to be mad at her because she is nice, but gosh, she has no idea how much things suck financially for Sister and me right now, too. Maybe she should get a job so Sister won’t have to get two. Maybe her daughter should get a job and pay for her own clothes and car insurance and whatnot. She and her daughter are both really nice, but god all I want is for us to not worry about which parental unit is falling apart now. I’m just incredibly pissed that she could work before she got married and as soon as she has my dad, she’s not and now she’s sneaking behind his back.

Oy time to go now. Done venting.

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