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After marriage, do you still give support to your parents?

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Problem/Goal: After marriage, do you still give support to your parents, e.g. monthly allowance? Is it okay or not okay to still give support to your unemployed parents and your younger sibling/s despite building your own family too?

Context: My older sibling stopped giving support to our parents and I'm left to give them allowance every month. Me and my partner are also planning to getting married soon. Me still wanting to give financial support to my parents after marriage has been a tension in our relationship. He says I can still give money to my parents but only enough for them and not being too depended on me. He says it's unfair for him that I was left the responsibility of my parents because my older sibling felt that their obligations to the family is done. I have plans too like building my future family. I just feel like I am being told not to support my parents when I know they're unemployed while building my family. We don't come from the same family setting, his parents are still both working while mine are unemployed. My mother wants to work but couldn't because she couldn't leave my younger sibling and she also have health problema too. My father, I don't think he wants to work anymore, even now that he also have health problems too. He is the situation where "magpapa-alila", be "utusan" and "sumipsip nalang" to his sibling's business or home agenda where in return, they give him money and support them. I feel overwhelmed. Like I have to choose between my partner and my family. Just feeling numb about the situation. I've been crying since yesterday and don't know what to do. I just want to support them, kahit mother ko nalang and my younger sibling because she didn't deserve the life she has now na naghihirap sa pera after all her sacrifices just wasted away dahil sa bad decisions ng father ko.

Previous Attempts: My partner and I would talk about our situation but we sometimes end up in an argument. I just need your opinions and some support.

Posted Dec 29, 2025, 3:03 AM UTC

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