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by Alifatisk 1206 days ago
I[23, M] was in a similar situation two years ago. My Father sadly passed away of cancer and left me alone with my mother and sister.

The first thing I did was go through all the finanicals with my mother to understand what we are dealing with, luckily, our insurance company gave us a good sum of money to survive on and my mothers pensions is good enough. I wanted to continue study to get a engineering degree but couldn't as I had to bring in money too, so I got a good well paying job.

But my sister [late 22] on the other hand, is living like we're good and want to pursue her own thing :/

I saw you didn't look for any finanical advice so I will avoid that. My advice to you, don't look at your family (especially your mother) like they are helpless, because they aren't. It sure feels lonely being the only man in the house but I would not have survived (mentally) if it wasn't for my mother. You should try to the same, open up to your mother and share your thoughts.

As of your sister, I wish I knew.