I agree with you. I doubt there is nothing like a temp position in her field or something like that. There probably isn’t a graduate school level job in her field, and that is what she is looking for. I mean, she is lucky to live rent-free, so she could do an internship or temp work easily, and doesn’t have to work at…

I wanna star you for your name........ “You LOOOOOOOOVED Brad”.

In the end Morgan is jealous, toxic and the mom babies her emotions because maybe the mom feels like she failed with her.

Yes. If you’re spending 8 hours a day, any day, playing with a cat you can be spending 8 hours a day working at a suboptimal job, or even volunteering or interning for your resume or, I dunno, doing some house or yard work for your parents who provide you with free room and board at the age of 24.

but I just couldn’t bring myself to outright ask a Tinder match for sex.

That’s the truth. I generally think Jane’s advice is usually too harsh, but the truth is, despite getting loans, she hasn’t done it all on her own. Yes, it’s commendable to put yourself through school, but a lot of people don’t have a fallback option with free room and board, and you have to acknowledge that is a…

The sucky thing about having depressed/insecure/etc SO’s is that if you ever do break up with them, all it does is convince them life really IS shitty and things really ARE bad and it’s TRUE that nobody likes them and they ARE awful people.

The fact that she sat in her room listening to her sister lie to her and didn’t at least poke her head out and say something like this boggles my damn mind.

Well, if you’re in a lot of debt, living at home, and don’t have a job then you’re life is kind of a mess too. Just messy in a different way from Morgan’s. Which is fine life is messy. But it’s not super constructive to build a narrative that her life is in tatters compared to your’s. Another POV is she has two kids,…

I have a feeling letter-writer is expecting a high salary right off the bat just because of her degree, and she’s never going to get it without some experience. Instead of using the free rent to do an internship relevant to her field, she’s just sitting around sending resumes to out-of-league jobs and playing with the…

Yeah, I don’t get that either. Her parents know the truth, so it’s not like Morgan is convincing them of lies. Yeah, sibling rivalry sucks, but the only way out is through (get a job, move out, move on).

I think her point is that someone is not fundamentally worth less as a human being if they haven’t completed grad school. Not that the LW shouldn’t be very proud of finishing grad school.

Yep, I also started as a receptionist in my field, and I gradually worked my way up to a highly desirable and well paid position. People in my field or new graduates ask me all the time how I did it, and I tell them, I literally started at the bottom. No one seems to actually want to do that though, they just want a…

I’m a little confused by sad sister. She says over and over again that her parents are supportive and understand her situation. They would obviously know they didn’t pay for a plane ticket and that sad sister didn’t take their credit card to buy a wallet. So, how exactly is big bad sister causing any rift? …

Totally the parents are allowing co-dependent behavior on both sides.

but I just couldn’t bring myself to outright ask a Tinder match for sex.

I feel like the parents should be saying this.

Sad sister: Get out of there as fast as you can, even if it means sleeping on a friend’s couch. Really. Your family is making your life a thousand times harder than it should be right now.

You are so right. The mom had no reason to share the texts from Morgan.

“Hey Morgan, shut the fuck up and mind your own business.”