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Serious question, a $400 vet bill taught me my family never talks about money until it hits
Last week my dog needed emergency surgery and the bill came to $412. I called my mom just to vent, and she got quiet, then admitted she and my dad had been hiding a credit card debt for almost 3 years. I had no idea. We sat on her porch in Tucson for two hours and just laid it all out. Turns out my sister has been covering their electric bill since last winter too, and nobody bothered to mention it. What surprised me most was a survey from a finance site that said about 1 in 4 families never discuss money at all. Has anyone else had a money talk get kicked off by something random like a pet or a car repair?
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nora18411d ago
The line about your mom getting quiet and then admitting to 3 years of hidden debt is the part that gets me, because that silence is the whole thing. Money stuff stays buried in most families until some small crisis cracks it open, and then you find out the quiet wasn't peace, it was people carrying stuff alone. A $412 vet bill did what a hundred Thanksgiving dinners couldn't.
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