I would love to pay someone to fix my mum's life. She's very down and depressed for various reasons e.g. marriage breakdown but still living together with my dad.
I've tried to help her over the years to no avail - I find that every time I get involved I end up emotionally exhausted, over-invested, over-involved, stressed, and nothing actually happens or changes. I am talking about a 15 year period here. When she tells me about her feelings and problems she puts on this weird voice where she barely moves her mouth, as though she's on her deathbed, when just a few minutes before that she was speaking normally.
This was particularly distressing when I was young because I would encourage her to leave her unhappy marriage, call the police when he beat her up, etc etc to no avail and now I'm at the point where I try my best to detach and distance myself to the point that I probably come across as cold.
After yet another phone call this evening I just wish I could hire someone to come in, mediate the situation, help them sell up and go their separate ways and just bloody FIX everything.