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Daughter not talking to me

Avniel

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My wife is pregnant now...sometimes pregnant women need some grace. She's a child still, we are around the same age, so sometimes it's stress and the only person you know you can I guess blow the steam off on is your parents or siblings. I don't think you should take it personal. Just keep some oil for the hormones lol
 
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I think that's an American perspective or maybe a Northern or inner city. When my business started to fail my family helped me out a great deal. If one of my cousins is having an issue the family comes together a fixes the solution. If you just want your children to have a good job, a decent house and well rounded children then I can understand your perspective.

But as a father I want my daughter to inherit wealth. I want her to pass on even more wealth than she has. I work hard now so years down the line when my daughter is 45 and she needs 600k for whatever....it's going to be there.

Now that my business is back on track, I'm done with school and I'm comfortable.....my family still gives me money. My grand auntie saw me and gave me 2 dollars for no reason.

My family is totally different, but if I have a cousin that needs a place to stay people talk about you if you don't help. Even when my cousin was charged with assault on an officer and possession of a firearm.....they paid the lawyer and judge he got probation......homes, schools, businesses(family is helping do my grand opening).....

That's why everyone in my family are home owners....you build the young so the progress the name if not it's stagnation.
 
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I'm from the South, and I grew up on a farm and lived in a small town when I grew up. It's a personal responsibility thing.

I'm not talking about help that is really needed, or helping your children get established in life. But what the OP was talking about was a bit overboard. Cooking for a 30 something year old on a weekly basis who is married and is becoming a mother herself is over the top. Cleaning their house for them, unless it is some extreme circumstance, is unnecessary at best, enabling at worst. The OP also talked about her daughter being upset because she wasn't being listened to about help she needed, when she was clearly being given a lot of help. So either help was given that was not wanted, or the daughter wants more help than she should be getting.

At 30 years old, adults - pregnant or not - can come up with their own meals and clean their own house.
 
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When my wife was pregnant her mother stayed with us on and off during the first trimester. Her niece would come over and clean the house. My wife is in her first trimester now....instead of her mom my Jamaican family help her out. That's part of sisterhood.

I guess it's more of an American thing. In my culture it's more of an extended family and community centered social structures. If my little cousin was pregnant people would expect me to bring her food and cook if her mother wasn't around.....that's just what family does.

Or she's not feeling well and has her hormones playing double Dutch so she catches attitudes quickly. That's the explanation most OBGYNs will give you.

To me that's not really being in a family. If you can't help me clean up my house when I'm not feeling well....what's the point? Why do I associate myself with you?
 
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