Your parents arguing about money isn’t your bill to pay. You can care without carrying it.
RESILIENCE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Hearing it happen puts you inside a problem you have no power over and no part in making. People of any age respond by trying to help, by shrinking their own needs, by taking a job, by treating the worry as theirs to solve. Caring about the people involved is natural. Taking on the arithmetic is a weight that was never assigned to you.
You might work out what is actually yours, which is usually your own spending and your own schooling, and let the rest sit with the adults. If the worry keeps you up, tell one trusted person outside the house.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Whose money worries have you taken on as if they were yours?
MORE IN ADVERSITY, PRESSURE & RESILIENCE
- Learning a new hallway map feels huge on Monday and invisible by Friday. Most hard things shrink like that.
- After a loss, the locker room gets quiet. Be the one who says the first useful thing, not the first angry one.
- You can be the one who struggles and the one who helps. Those aren’t opposite people.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.