Ask the Counselor . . .
Thu, 11/21/2013 - 02:50
Edgar
By SUSAN LAUTZ. LPC.
Dear Susan: My sister is on disability. With the help she gets for rent, utilities and food, she could afford to live a satisfying, if simple life. Our family doesn’t mind helping out some, too. But what we can’t accept are all the stray people she collects who live off her and don’t contribute a dime. I know for a fact that some of them have stolen from her, though she keeps denying it. When we try to make her get rid of them, she cries and says she’s lonely. She says the companionship is worth the cost. How do I make her see reason?
Dear Throw: You need to help your sister find some actual friends. If she’s like a lot of people I know, it makes her feel good to be needed. So she’s a sitting duck for all the moochers in the vicinity. (I swear there’s a code they use, like hobos did in the Great Depression. They draw a secret sign on the door that lets their tribe know a chump lives there.)
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