Dear Queenie,
Our grown-up daughter still lives with us even though she has a full-time job and could afford a place of her own. She doesn’t help around the house and when I ask her to do something she always has an excuse not to, and my husband, her father, says she shouldn’t have to because she works full-time and we are retired, so I end up doing all the housework.
Queenie, do you agree with him?—Retired mother
Dear Mother,
No. If your daughter has a job, she should be paying rent, plus something for the food she eats, or she should be helping with the housework.
If her father does not agree with this, let him do the housework for a while and then see if he still feels the same way.
