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Buying cars for our difficult children...discussion
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<blockquote data-quote="Tanya M" data-source="post: 644202" data-attributes="member: 18516"><p>I'll start. I bought a car for my difficult child. For a brief period of time I really thought my difficult child was trying to get it together. He and his girlfriend got pregnant and they got married and for a while he appeared to be really trying. His girlfriend's parents had let them use one of their cars but it broke down beyond repair. I was mainly concerned about my granddaughter and getting her to the Dr. for checkups. I bought a decent $4000 used Ford Explorer. I drew up a loan agreement that he signed, his payments were $100 a month. Needless to say I only got one payment. In the meantime my daughter in law became pregnant again and my son started giving me the sob stories of how hard it was to make ends meet. Then he quit his job (a long line of jobs that he has quit) My daughter in law started seeing his true colors and started calling him out on certain things he was doing like using the little money they had to buy pot and booze. He started complaining about what a nag she was and one day he said that was it and left her with two small children. That was straw that broke my back. Over the years I have put up with so much crap from my difficult child, I have forgiven him for so many horrible things, I have always been there for him and have gone above and beyond to help him but when he abandoned my daughter in law and my grandchildren that was it for me.</p><p></p><p>I knew buying the car was a risk and that I may never get paid back. I went into it with my eyes wide open. Had it not been for my granddaughter I never would have considered it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanya M, post: 644202, member: 18516"] I'll start. I bought a car for my difficult child. For a brief period of time I really thought my difficult child was trying to get it together. He and his girlfriend got pregnant and they got married and for a while he appeared to be really trying. His girlfriend's parents had let them use one of their cars but it broke down beyond repair. I was mainly concerned about my granddaughter and getting her to the Dr. for checkups. I bought a decent $4000 used Ford Explorer. I drew up a loan agreement that he signed, his payments were $100 a month. Needless to say I only got one payment. In the meantime my daughter in law became pregnant again and my son started giving me the sob stories of how hard it was to make ends meet. Then he quit his job (a long line of jobs that he has quit) My daughter in law started seeing his true colors and started calling him out on certain things he was doing like using the little money they had to buy pot and booze. He started complaining about what a nag she was and one day he said that was it and left her with two small children. That was straw that broke my back. Over the years I have put up with so much crap from my difficult child, I have forgiven him for so many horrible things, I have always been there for him and have gone above and beyond to help him but when he abandoned my daughter in law and my grandchildren that was it for me. I knew buying the car was a risk and that I may never get paid back. I went into it with my eyes wide open. Had it not been for my granddaughter I never would have considered it. [/QUOTE]
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