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<blockquote data-quote="Elsieshaye" data-source="post: 510332" data-attributes="member: 12928"><p>Thanks, Signorina! I'm not sure. I gave my cousin a heads up, but couched it as "difficult child wants to know my side of the family better, and may be emailing you." The property is in a foreign country, so lots of paperwork involving consulates, etc., and difficult child would be on the hook for 1) getting a passport, 2) buying a round-trip plane ticket, 3) figuring out how to eat and where to sleep. I have no problem if cousin is willing to host difficult child for a visit (although they live in a tiny apartment, have a baby almost a year old, and aren't wealthy by any means), but I am not going to contribute anything to it, or bail out difficult child (literally or metaphorically) if things don't go as planned. Cousin and I are the only ones in the family with actual jobs, so any potential mooching difficult child tries to do won't go very far. He's 18, and I'm done taking responsibility for how he appears to or acts toward other people. I'm sure if he asks for something weird or inappropriate, cousin will let me know. (It's not, unfortunately, like my son is the only weird or inappropriate family member. He reminds me a lot of my brother and another cousin, actually, right down to the felony conviction.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elsieshaye, post: 510332, member: 12928"] Thanks, Signorina! I'm not sure. I gave my cousin a heads up, but couched it as "difficult child wants to know my side of the family better, and may be emailing you." The property is in a foreign country, so lots of paperwork involving consulates, etc., and difficult child would be on the hook for 1) getting a passport, 2) buying a round-trip plane ticket, 3) figuring out how to eat and where to sleep. I have no problem if cousin is willing to host difficult child for a visit (although they live in a tiny apartment, have a baby almost a year old, and aren't wealthy by any means), but I am not going to contribute anything to it, or bail out difficult child (literally or metaphorically) if things don't go as planned. Cousin and I are the only ones in the family with actual jobs, so any potential mooching difficult child tries to do won't go very far. He's 18, and I'm done taking responsibility for how he appears to or acts toward other people. I'm sure if he asks for something weird or inappropriate, cousin will let me know. (It's not, unfortunately, like my son is the only weird or inappropriate family member. He reminds me a lot of my brother and another cousin, actually, right down to the felony conviction.) [/QUOTE]
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