As much as I normally would not pity someone who was enabling family like this I feel like it's important to remember that He has had to deal with this family for possibly 18 19 20 years. when you become accustomed to keeping things afloat and managing emotions and just dealing with things as they come to you without any other option. It is very easy to become unable to see other solutions to a problem. She is long being used to not being in charge truly in charge of her family and having to do The best she can without the actual power to stop them from scre**** up. It's only been like 4 weeks she's going to need time to realize she has the power to just not help them or perhaps make it so that they cannot just spend money on their own by and stating her own like steward of the household who does want to buy in the purchase that they have to run all their transactions through. I think she also has yet to realize that the best option is to take her nephew away from them. It might have not even crossed her mind because she's probably been raised in the situation where it's considered bad to take a kid away from their parents And considering that before she would not have had the resources to take care of him It would have been even harder decision so now she's got to overturn all that in her head. I do hope to author does add in some growth in regards to that because it will be miserable to continue reading this if her family is still allowed to be so annoying