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22 Apr 2009, 8:10 pm

I feel that my family is breaking apart and it's always about money.

Ok, my late father left my mum and all his kids the house that my mum and I live in. He didn't pay all the money back to the bank for the house so mum is paying it off. I think it's something like $600 a month.
She has sh***y job in a call centre and can barely afford to make ends meet. I allow her to use some of my money.
My brother and her are at a bit of a war because she feels ignored by him and that he doesn't give any money toward the house. He rather the house be sold or rented out so we get get money off a tenant.
Then there's me, still living in the house and as an aspie you could probably imagine the kinds of thoughts that are racing through my mind - are we going to sell the house, where would i live, oh i hate moving, what about my dog, but i love this town.
My eldest sister says I don't have a say in what happens to the house. I find this unfair because I do live here and my money does go toward paying the house off.
I don't want my mum and brother to fight, but I can't think of a way to get them back together.

My mum is really stressed out from her job, she's menopausal and has always been oversensitive. I don't like seeing her having to deal with this.



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22 Apr 2009, 8:12 pm

Why would you not have a say in what happens to the house? You've taken responsibility for contributing to the mortgage...



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22 Apr 2009, 11:20 pm

That's just my older sister. She lives overseas so doesn't really know if I pay or not.
I'm really more concerned in getting my brother and mother talking to each other again.
They are just both so stubborn to apologise to one another and moving on from there. It's a very juvenile argument too. It all started on Facebook, well my mum feels my brother ignores her and his comment on Facebook just ignited the fire.
I'm probably the only one in the family that can see it from each point of view.



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23 Apr 2009, 4:08 am

pensieve wrote:
They are just both so stubborn to apologise to one another and moving on from there. It's a very juvenile argument too. It all started on Facebook, well my mum feels my brother ignores her and his comment on Facebook just ignited the fire.
I'm probably the only one in the family that can see it from each point of view.


You are very good at breaking things down.

What do they have in common that might bring them together? Religion? Cooking together? movie outing? Music interest or sport topics to seed between them?