A mum has spoken of her shock over her son's angry reaction to being asked for board money. Taking to online forum Mumsnet to get opinions from fellow parents, the mum says she asked her son for £80 a month, only for him to be "completely f***ing livid".
She says she was stunned after the simple request for her son to chip in for living costs was met with such anger. Her son earns around £800-£900 per month and is currently saving up to attend university, she added.
However, she says she is about to lose £60 child benefit, and is finding things "really, really tough" at the moment. On Mumsnet's popular 'Am I Being Unreasonable' (AIBU) forum, with a post titled "[AIBU] To ask my 18 year old for board", the mum wrote: "He earns 8-900 pounds a month and I've suggested he gives me £80 a [month].
