Orchidflower
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Now MIL informed us last night she wants the checkbook back- so she can "feel like a person". UGH!
My mother had dementia and said the same thing. Thought always she was a financial wizard when really she was just super frugal is all. Some financial wizard: she changed checkbooks like Kleenex and, even when using the same checkbook from the same bank, skipped checks around like #48, #321, #67, etc.
I took the checkbooks and let her whine about it. She got over it. In fact, she forgot about it after awhile. Sometimes common sense and reality makes you stand your ground, cause heaven only knows what she would have paid for if I hadn't done that. And when I got to her house there were 4 different moochs--including her attorney--trying to take advantage of her. That stopped after they saw I was there. Like I said, stand your ground with her and become the parent.