I want to strangle my brother. It's as simple as that.
At 23, he has yet to fully take responsibility for his life. It's pissing me off because he continues to cause stress for our parents. Money is extremely tight for them; they're struggling to stay afloat and get out of debt. Yet my brother makes it worse because he hasn't learned how to manage his own money.
He has his own job with his own bills to pay, but every time he's short on money, he comes running to Mom and Dad. Every time it causes a fight and our parents' stress level skyrockets. I hate it. I hate seeing them struggle. I hate how my brother doesn't see what he's doing.
I've screwed up and I've learned the hard way to take responsibility for my life. I've repaid my parents for all the money they've loaned me and I make sacrifices where needed so I can pay my bills and save money. I'm finally at a point where I have money saved and part of it is being used towards going to MTP again. That's my reward for being diligent and responsible.
My brother hasn't learned that yet. He keeps screwing up, refusing to take the time to learn to budget his money and make sacrifices when he needs to in order to pay his bills. Everyone keeps telling him to pay his bills first and any money left over should be saved rather than spent, but he doesn't listen.
Now he's asked to borrow money from me because this time our parents couldn't. This time they had to resort to borrowing money from me to pay one of their bills. (That was not a problem considering how they've helped me out in the past.) So this time our parents didn't have any money to borrow my brother and he's had to resort to asking me. Normally it wouldn't be a problem if he didn't have this habit of always needing to be bailed out.
Of course I'm loaning him the money. It's not a lot, but it burns my ass because when is he going to learn?! I wish he would grow the fuck up.
At 23, he has yet to fully take responsibility for his life. It's pissing me off because he continues to cause stress for our parents. Money is extremely tight for them; they're struggling to stay afloat and get out of debt. Yet my brother makes it worse because he hasn't learned how to manage his own money.
He has his own job with his own bills to pay, but every time he's short on money, he comes running to Mom and Dad. Every time it causes a fight and our parents' stress level skyrockets. I hate it. I hate seeing them struggle. I hate how my brother doesn't see what he's doing.
I've screwed up and I've learned the hard way to take responsibility for my life. I've repaid my parents for all the money they've loaned me and I make sacrifices where needed so I can pay my bills and save money. I'm finally at a point where I have money saved and part of it is being used towards going to MTP again. That's my reward for being diligent and responsible.
My brother hasn't learned that yet. He keeps screwing up, refusing to take the time to learn to budget his money and make sacrifices when he needs to in order to pay his bills. Everyone keeps telling him to pay his bills first and any money left over should be saved rather than spent, but he doesn't listen.
Now he's asked to borrow money from me because this time our parents couldn't. This time they had to resort to borrowing money from me to pay one of their bills. (That was not a problem considering how they've helped me out in the past.) So this time our parents didn't have any money to borrow my brother and he's had to resort to asking me. Normally it wouldn't be a problem if he didn't have this habit of always needing to be bailed out.
Of course I'm loaning him the money. It's not a lot, but it burns my ass because when is he going to learn?! I wish he would grow the fuck up.
It's already...