{"id":24317,"date":"2025-12-14T14:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24317"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:42:06","slug":"i-refuse-to-pay-for-my-unemployed-friends-life-forever-he-says-he-cant-find-a-normal-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=24317","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Pay for My Unemployed Friend\u2019s Life Forever, He Says He Can\u2019t Find a \u201cNormal Job\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Claire, I\u2019m 34, and I\u2019ve been helping my friend Jason ever since his mom passed away in September 2025. He grew up in a single-parent household, and after her untimely death, I felt he had no one left. Out of kindness and empathy, I\u2019ve been covering his mortgage, groceries, and bills for the past three months, thinking it would give him space to grieve and regain stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first, it felt natural. I wanted to be there for him, and I genuinely cared. But then it became clear that Jason wasn\u2019t planning to get back on his feet. He stopped looking for work saying he couldn\u2019t find a \u201cnormal job\u201d and expected me to keep paying, as if my generosity gave him a permanent safety net.Three months in, I told him I couldn\u2019t do it anymore. My own finances were stretched, and I needed to set limits. I thought he\u2019d understand (that he\u2019d be grateful), but instead, he looked me straight in the eye and said, \u201cIt\u2019s your fault I can\u2019t function without your help. You\u2019re being selfish.\u201d I froze. I couldn\u2019t believe he was blaming me for his own choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Claire, I\u2019m 34, and I\u2019ve been helping my friend Jason ever since his mom passed away in September 2025. He grew up in a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":236,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24319,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317\/revisions\/24319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}