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When aging parent addiction threatens couple's financial stability

My wife and I both make decent money but her father expects us to cover his gambling debts again and she can't say no to him, and I can't keep watching our retirement savings disappear into his addiction.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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One partner's inability to set boundaries with a destructive parent is compromising the couple's financial future.

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