Originally Posted by
Colibri49
Me - mid sixties and retired. Them - late thirties and both working.
Helping them onto the housing ladder (if they're not on it already) would probably be appreciated now, but hopefully you've got another couple of decades before the dilemma arises for real - by which time you kind of hope they'll have made it for themselves....
On a less pleasant note, you could need the cash yourself for care home fees, should health and other circumstances dictate - another of the side effects of living longer.
All that said, selling the idea to the missus is probably the greatest challenge...