My sister and I both help support our mom financially but we approach it completely differently - she gives whatever mom asks for and I try to set boundaries, and now we're fighting about enabling versus caring. We're both stressed about money but dealing with it in opposite ways.
More people experience this than they realize.
Competing philosophies of financial care are fracturing family unity while neither approach resolves the underlying scarcity.
“Where Are You with Financial anxiety and scarcity mindset?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.