Quote Originally Posted by Archerfish View Post
This is the scenario I always tell to my students and trainees, avoid it as much as possible.

I start to illustrate this way, let's say you start a very low salary of $2,000 a month as a Maritime Officer. And because you are a dutiful son, you give half of your salary to your mother.

Imagine this, doing it for 10 years straight. Every month, your parents receive half of your salary.

In doing so, you have created a future enemy of your wife. Why? Because once you get married, your priorities will change.

So what will change? One of them is your allotment. Where will you send your salary this time? Of course, to your wife.

One of my students raised his hand, and he said that it actually happened to their family. His older brother did what I just illustrated. And his parents are angry to their daughter-in-law, because they "started to become poor" since she arrived in the scene.

We had a few discussions, sharing their own stories, but I always end it with, "Honor your father and mother." I make it a point, that it doesn't mean you get married, you neglect your parents, that you no longer take care of them, particularly when they become too old to take care of themselves.

Of course it's another story, when you are still living with your parents, and you have a job, and yet, you are still not financially independent.

I have known a few, that they could "afford" to have a debt to their parents! Yes, it's unbelievable.

And with that, I admire you for being independent.
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