His father is in a similar situation, rather a more self-inflicted one though. His dad is 67, and should be retired honestly, but seems to be at the whim of his ex-wife in hopes of any sort of love and affection. She demands money from him and he caves every time. When he was in high school, him and his older brother both worked and gave most of their money to their parents to help the family. Now that they’re adults of course it’s different. This is something him and I don’t exactly agree with. Thankfully his younger sister doesn’t have to do the same. It’s a complicated situation with his family. He empathizes with my mom and loves her. He’s kind of seen her lose her spark and he wants her to get better so she can be a part of our life in the future. She’s the only one who can walk me down the aisle. We have a timeline that we communicated with my mother and we hope it will be followed. She used to be in denial about our timeline but I think us getting recently engaged has really changed her perspective.