She has an addiction to buying stuff. Look up Oniomania online, it's the addiction to shopping.
I think she needs some kind of counselling to help her overcome her dependence on buying as a form of gratification. Your Dad is merely maintaining her addiction, and so are you if you give her money.
It's a genuine mental illness and the fact that she's putting your family in debt, made worse by the fact that she's concealing that debt from the one person who will have to pay it off, does not bode well for your home-life.
Yeah, it is destroying their relationship and stressing my Dad out so much but he can't just leave her because he does not want to expose my brother to more than he has delt with already such as her addictions and lack of care for him due to her mental illness.
The thing is, my Dad makes a good amount of money and has afforded her a lifestyle, new cars, a nice house etc. that he would probably be expected to continue to provide for her after a divorce and he just can't afford that.
Are my Mom's spending habits normal and should I give her my money?
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She has an addiction to buying stuff. Look up Oniomania online, it's the addiction to shopping.
I think she needs some kind of counselling to help her overcome her dependence on buying as a form of gratification. Your Dad is merely maintaining her addiction, and so are you if you give her money.
It's a genuine mental illness and the fact that she's putting your family in debt, made worse by the fact that she's concealing that debt from the one person who will have to pay it off, does not bode well for your home-life.
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Yeah, it is destroying their relationship and stressing my Dad out so much but he can't just leave her because he does not want to expose my brother to more than he has delt with already such as her addictions and lack of care for him due to her mental illness.
The thing is, my Dad makes a good amount of money and has afforded her a lifestyle, new cars, a nice house etc. that he would probably be expected to continue to provide for her after a divorce and he just can't afford that.