Just for a bit of context I’m a single mum and I live with my mum in one of the rooms with my daughter who is 4 months old, I pay my mum rent to live here as I’m waiting to move somewhere else.
I asked her to put money into my bank account that I’m saving for my daughter and when she did she spent £20 of it to buy cigarettes and obviously assumed because I had £400 (that I worked really hard to save up from working) that I had money. When I confronted her about it she said “oh no you’re not mad at me are you? “
she works 29 hours a week, lives in my stepdads house and doesn’t pay any rent so it’s not like she’s short of money.
my brothers recently just came out of prison and we get on really well but since I asked her to put money in my bank she keeps asking me to send him money. Other than my tiny saving I have I only get universal credits & child benefit and I can barely afford to get by. She will often ask if I need anything from the shop and ask for money which is fine but I always say no.
she keeps asking if I can send him £30, because his out of work and keeps spending his benefits on toys for his 7 year old daughter, what I don’t get is why she can’t send him money herself, why am I being pressured to do so?