This man is currently married and earns a very healthy income – making a salary in the mid-six figures every year. So, just recently, his parents asked him for a huge sum of Money, and ever since he refused to hand over the funds, they’ve been giving him a lot of slack.

It all began about a week ago when he attended a family dinner to celebrate his sister – who is 10 years younger than him – getting into a medical fellowship.

All was well for the first 15 minutes until his parents dropped a bomb on him, asking him for a whopping $250,000. Apparently, they are retired and wanted the money so they could downsize and buy a smaller home.

However, he didn’t have that kind of money just lying around. Rather, he would need to sell off his investments to raise that amount of capital, and he didn’t want to do that because then, he’d need to pay taxes.

“So I told them to sell their Current House first, come live with me, and then buy another house using the money they received from the previous house,” he recalled.

Sounds reasonable enough, right? Well, he thought so, too, until his mom began criticizing him about his finances.

According to him, his mom likely resents him because he didn’t buy her many things once he started earning a great salary.

“But I’ve also had to pay back almost $160,000 in loans,” he reasoned.

Regardless, his mom started talking about how he never gifted her enough stuff for her birthday – claiming that he didn’t “see her as anything.” Then, she pointed out how, since he was never generous to her in the past, she didn’t actually expect him to help them out with money.

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Now, he admitted that, for his mom’s birthdays, he would only gift her $50. However, he tried to help his parents out in other ways – like taking them out to dinner each month – despite hating the get-togethers.

In his mind, his parents are just “extremely negative people” who are very hard to be around.

“[They’re] always bickering and just overall will bring your happiness level down for a day or two… always talking to me about divorce,” he explained.

“But I do it because they’re my parents.”

He also admitted how, up until he started making good money, he just felt like a “burden” to his parents.

Still, ever since declining to give them $250,000, he can’t help but wonder if he was in the wrong and if he really should be more generous with his money.

Why do you think his parents felt comfortable asking for so much money? Do you agree that it’d be smarter for his parents to sell their current house and use the profit to buy a new one? How would you have reacted in his shoes?

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