retirement

‘It’s important to me because I am changing careers to be able to retire’: New boyfriend pushes 53-year-old woman to prioritize a Thanksgiving trip to Colorado over her classes, kids, and long-term retirement plans, so she cancels to protect her future

Etai Eshet

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‘She brags how she is ahead of the game for retirement and stuff’: Older sibling pays parents' bills while 26-year-old sister lives at home rent-free, travels to Japan, so the sibling tells them if they keep subsidizing her, they’ll cut financial help

Etai Eshet

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Parents approaching retirement fund house 36-year-old daughter who never held a steady job, leaving her 29-year-old brother worried about inheriting the responsibility: ‘I have my own life’

Etai Eshet

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Unemployed 23-year-old delays parents' retirement by refusing work or school, leaving older sibling worried they will still be dependent when parents need care: ‘My parents complain to me but do not choose to do anything’

Etai Eshet

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Employee of 27 years receives Oreos and a Snickers bar as a thank-you gift after retiring from Home Depot: 'Management has become less welcoming and empathetic over the last 10-15 years.'

Emmy Pratt

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Wife pushes husband to retire as planned and cut off financially dependent adult kids who refuse to grow up, compromising parents’ retirement plans: ‘I want to be able to travel and enjoy life with my husband before we’re too old to do so’

Etai Eshet

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Man nearing retirement refuses to use his savings to fund in-laws' expensive lifestyle, unwilling to support them after years of their irresponsible spending: ‘I worked my whole life to save this money, I don’t feel like enabling this fantasy lifestyle’

Etai Eshet

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‘I am livid, I'm truly ready to pack my stuff and leave’: Woman discovers her husband secretly co-signed a $76K loan for his freeloading, reckless 37-year-old son who lives rent-free and never pays him back

Etai Eshet

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Father redirects $1,000 in daughter’s monthly support to save for retirement after she makes it clear she won’t care for him in old age: ‘I realized I don't want my future to be in the hands of someone who intends to lord that over me’

Etai Eshet

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Boyfriend of 10 months asks girlfriend to lend him $7K from her 401K despite not paying her back the $250 she already lent him: 'The first loan was a test'

Emmy Pratt

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58-year-old woman sends $1.5M to scammers, gets angry when 20-year-old son prevents her from taking money out of her 401K to send the scammers $30K more

Emmy Pratt

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'I'm not rearranging my entire life because she spent recklessly': Daughter refuses to be her mother's fallback retirement plan after the 58-year-old mom blows her savings on "treating herself"

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I'm frustrated and also embarrassed': Daughter cuts off elderly parents who expect lifelong financial support after retiring with nothing saved

Isabella Penn

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Penny pinchers discuss the normal age to hit $100K in savings: 'It seems like everyone is doing it by 21'

Emmy Pratt

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34-year-old man refuses to financially assist irresponsible sister in debt after she blows through a $20k loan under her father's name on a failed business: ‘[She] hadn't made a single payment on her loan in the past SIX MONTHS’

Lana DeGaetano

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Old Souls: Why the dwindling prospects of retirement have turned traditionally geriatric hobbies into the new quarter-life crisis

Jesse Kessenheimer

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