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Who will have priority - your wife and kids or your parents and their repayment demand when it comes down to it?
Where do you stand legally - citizenship, green card, student visa?
My future wife and children. They are my life down the lane, and are the ones who will support me during my latter half if respected and treated well. I will not let them down, under any circumstances.
When it comes to wife Vs. mom & dad, I will make sure to hear both sides of the argument, and side with the one that is right followed by an explanation as to why.
The starting income for a GA tech Masters graduate in engineering with good standing is around $75K (as opposed to just $59K with my undergraduate degree). Taking off $8000 per year still leaves me with still leaves me with $67K, which is reasonable for a single adult male to live on (As opposed to somewhere in the low 50's K which is quite poor by NJ standards). And as time goes on, I hope to receive promotions which could increase my base income, thereby decreasing the impacts.
Then you take out taxes and health insurance, and you're going to feel the impact of losing that 8K.
My future wife and children. They are my life down the lane, and are the ones who will support me during my latter half if respected and treated well. I will not let them down, under any circumstances.
When it comes to wife Vs. mom & dad, I will make sure to hear both sides of the argument, and side with the one that is right followed by an explanation as to why.
Bless your heart, if only it worked so cleanly. Or maybe it does if you retain a cultural situation.
My future wife and children. They are my life down the lane, and are the ones who will support me during my latter half if respected and treated well. I will not let them down, under any circumstances.
When it comes to wife Vs. mom & dad, I will make sure to hear both sides of the argument, and side with the one that is right followed by an explanation as to why.
My future wife and children. They are my life down the lane, and are the ones who will support me during my latter half if respected and treated well. I will not let them down, under any circumstances.
When it comes to wife Vs. mom & dad, I will make sure to hear both sides of the argument, and side with the one that is right followed by an explanation as to why.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall when that goes down.
Won't work Adi. Both sides will expect you to side with them.
Hmmm, go against your parents and side with you wife and all the negative stuff from them will boil back to the surface.
Side with your parents against your wife and never get laid again. Ever.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall when that goes down.
Won't work Adi. Both sides will expect you to side with them.
Hmmm, go against your parents and side with you wife and all the negative stuff from them will boil back to the surface.
Side with your parents against your wife and never get laid again. Ever.
I will do what was taught as the right thing to do according to scriptures. That's what I use to discriminate between right and wrong. Not mom, dad, or wife, but the holy book for mankind. This is why I am fighting my way to financial independence. I want to agree with my parents while doing right, and contradict them while doing wrong.
Last edited by Adi from the Brunswicks; 08-06-2014 at 04:26 PM..
OK, my entire family talked about this at the dinner table, and finally dad decided that repaying the money from when I turned 16 till grad school finishes (Around $202 K) was enough (after me and mom made him realize how ridiculous he sounded). That's something I can provide in terms of remittance. Dividing the cost over 25 years puts me at around $ 8000/yr, which seems reasonable in my eyes. The starting income for a GA tech Masters graduate in engineering with good standing is around $75K (as opposed to just $59K with my undergraduate degree). Taking off $8000 per year still leaves me with still leaves me with $67K, which is reasonable for a single adult male to live on (As opposed to somewhere in the low 50's K which is quite poor by NJ standards). And as time goes on, I hope to receive promotions which could increase my base income, thereby decreasing the impacts.
Dad was raised by a money hungry and controlling father himself and what I am seeing is the typical "like father, like son" thing over here.
Um NO, it isn't. Seriously Adi, why would you even entertain such nonsense? At 16 you are still a minor unless you were legally emancipated. Your parents are responsible for you until at least 18. If they want to start counting then, well, fine, but that is still absurd. I would tell them to bugger off.
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Seriously Adi, why would you even entertain such nonsense? At 16 you are still a minor unless you were legally emancipated. Your parents are responsible for you until at least 18. If they want to start counting then, well, fine, but that is still absurd. I would tell them to bugger off. 
