Shock Factors to a Minimum Please!

It’s official. I am going to go absolutely loco one of these days. The question is “Where is my sanity breaking point?” I don’t even think that writing this post can relay the feelings I have towards everything right now – and without sounding like a selfish spoiled brat…

Several days ago, mom decided to just now inform me that her and dad will never be able to put anything toward my future wedding. That’s nice. I guess I am expected to lay and hatch a $10,000 egg. Wouldn’t this be something that would be beneficial to know, lets say, 5 or 6 years ago. Maybe a heads up of some sort. Some type of inclination that this would be a possibility. But no, no, no – let’s bring this up when there’s a possibility of a wedding within the next year. Not only that, but by getting married…I would have to furnish an apartment/home and have enough in the bank for all fees necessary to get a start-up to my life. I am livid about this.

Then, on top of that….What Wedding? How in the heck am I supposed to prepare for something I am not positive of? And how am I supposed to support someone in med school? Should I even have to? I guess not – but if I ever want to move forward…it has to start somewhere.

Just the way everything is turning out right now is totally backwards and doesn’t make any logical sense to me. I’m sorry, but I didn’t know that it would be difficult to just make ends meet. Especially with a good job. And it really isn’t close to relevant our parents situation when they were young and started their life. Yes, they were hard workers…but $200 a month could actually pay all bills, buy groceries, have discretionary income AND save. It just isn’t that way anymore. And the baby boomers want to declare that we just want too much. That just is not so.

All I know to do at this point is to just roll with the punches. It still doesn’t cover the fact that my family needs to be more upfront with BIG issues such as this. Let’s keep the shock factor to a minimum at this point.