My spouse and I are both seeing our real wages effectively cut by inflation while our elderly parents on both sides need increasing financial help, and we're caught between supporting them and protecting our own future retirement. We haven't been honest with anyone about how unsustainable this is becoming.
More people experience this than they realize.
Middle-generation couples face impossible arithmetic between their own financial survival and intergenerational care obligations.
“Where Are You with Inflation — causes effects and living with it?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.