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kateharrison23545 · 24/02/2026 14:55

my step son is at university where he has met his girlfriend. it all seemed to be going smoothly until he revealed to us that she had dropped off her course and is now just living a student life with no actual real life prospects. my step son then revealed to his cousin that he has been funding her whilst she has been doing absolutely nothing, and that is in fact where all of his money has been disappearing to!

please help me and tell me how i can approach this with not only my step son but with his girlfriend too. i am most upset with the pair of them.
thank you

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NorWouldTilly · 24/02/2026 15:03

Sorry to ask, but where is your step-son’s biological parent (either one) in all this?

(Have to say, it’s not the first time this sort of situation has arisen in a university … Our own young adult encountered exactly the same with one of their housemates, who moved the no-longer-studying, no income gf into the house.)

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