few weeks until we get back on our feet?”
The irony was almost impossible to process.
The same people who threw me out because I refused to pay a luxury car repair were standing on my doorstep asking me for shelter because their financial life had collapsed.
And the reality behind their downfall was worse than they admitted.
Once I stopped supporting them, they lost the cushion I had quietly provided for years.
Without my salary subsidizing their lifestyle and rescuing every emergency, their fragile finances began collapsing within months.