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<blockquote data-quote="Roxona" data-source="post: 684589" data-attributes="member: 19076"><p>I don't have an irresponsible bone in my body. I spent most of my childhood helping to raise my little sister while my mom worked 2 or 3 jobs and my dad drank...being irresponsible was never an option. I'm okay with being responsible for myself, or helping my family when times get hard and they need it...but it's the irresponsibility (and entitlement) of our older children that gets me. My husband's two older children (ages 24 and 26) live/mooch off their mom and my 20 year old still lives/tries to mooch off us. I was racing out of the house the summer I graduated high school...my husband was the same. Neither of us was ready for college, so we both joined the military. I suppose it could be successfully argued that we still had a very nice safety net even though we were protecting our country and fighting in Desert Storm. I wonder how dependent or independent I would have been if I hadn't joined the military and stayed close to home instead.</p><p></p><p>Lil's day dream is a lot like mine...move to some small mountain town and live as simply as possible. I think living off the grid completely would be difficult, but as close as possible would be an interesting concept to explore. It's interesting how my father's drug/alcohol induced, hippy musings have rubbed off on me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roxona, post: 684589, member: 19076"] I don't have an irresponsible bone in my body. I spent most of my childhood helping to raise my little sister while my mom worked 2 or 3 jobs and my dad drank...being irresponsible was never an option. I'm okay with being responsible for myself, or helping my family when times get hard and they need it...but it's the irresponsibility (and entitlement) of our older children that gets me. My husband's two older children (ages 24 and 26) live/mooch off their mom and my 20 year old still lives/tries to mooch off us. I was racing out of the house the summer I graduated high school...my husband was the same. Neither of us was ready for college, so we both joined the military. I suppose it could be successfully argued that we still had a very nice safety net even though we were protecting our country and fighting in Desert Storm. I wonder how dependent or independent I would have been if I hadn't joined the military and stayed close to home instead. Lil's day dream is a lot like mine...move to some small mountain town and live as simply as possible. I think living off the grid completely would be difficult, but as close as possible would be an interesting concept to explore. It's interesting how my father's drug/alcohol induced, hippy musings have rubbed off on me. [/QUOTE]
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