It’s always the house he’ll be losing. Not the wife’s cigarette habit, or the dog, the 3 cats, or the lottery tickets, or the daily energy drinks and other non-essentials.
Never any of these things that will be lost, it’ll be his house, according to him for not be able to make the mortgage payment.
I told him, “Work TWO $10.00 an hour jobs.”
You don't understand. The cigs they need to calm their nerves. The energy drinks are for them to have energy to try to find work. The Lottery tickets are for trying to get money to get themselves out of debt. As for the dog and cats, do you want to have them taken to the pound where they will be put to sleep?
What kind of mean person are you?
(Ok, sarcasm off).
But maybe as you can guess, I am myself familiar with this. In my case, it's my brother and two sisters. (Yep, everyone but me).
There are apparently many people in that situation. It is easier for them not to change their ways and ask for hand-outs. So they didn't change their spending back when they had some money saved or coming in, and now they get to experience full stop all at once - they have now hit a brick wall.
In my case, Mom ran out of money to help them and no amount of sweet talking (especially after they didn't have much to say to me for about the past ten years) is going to cause me to part with my hard earned $$$. That's for my wife and myself - because I know hard times are coming...
So hang in there. It is frustrating, but you can't be responsible for what other people do, just yourself.
As a side note, there is the possibility that there is going to be flak coming your way as they try to grab at any thing out of desperation.
Well, he could just keep sitting on his butt and lose his house!