Comments on: 4 Steps to a Successful Financial Intervention http://wealthpilgrim.com/4-steps-to-staging-a-financial-intervention/ WealthPilgrim.com - A Journey To Self, Health and Wealth Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:42:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Neal http://wealthpilgrim.com/4-steps-to-staging-a-financial-intervention/#comment-289 Neal Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:52:45 +0000 http://wealthpilgrim.com/?p=1131#comment-289 WHEW....brutal story. I've got to believe that you are still better off knowing you did everything you could - even if it wasn't accepted or appreciated. Thanks for sharing this. WHEW….brutal story. I’ve got to believe that you are still better off knowing you did everything you could – even if it wasn’t accepted or appreciated.

Thanks for sharing this.

]]> By: rgurien http://wealthpilgrim.com/4-steps-to-staging-a-financial-intervention/#comment-288 rgurien Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:50:04 +0000 http://wealthpilgrim.com/?p=1131#comment-288 Yep. I was involved in an intervention for my parents. In fact I was the spokesperson. Brought my husband, my brothers, and their wives. And when my parents resisted, the rest of the family (except my husband) caved in, supported my parents and told me to shove it. Fast forward 5 years: my father died of a massive stroke and left my mother in tens of thousands of dollars debt. Guess who is responsible for helping to dig her out? (And of course, no one in my family even *remembers* the intervention.) The moral of the story: go ahead and try your intervention. But it won't work and you'll lose the relationship to boot. Yep. I was involved in an intervention for my parents. In fact I was the spokesperson. Brought my husband, my brothers, and their wives. And when my parents resisted, the rest of the family (except my husband) caved in, supported my parents and told me to shove it. Fast forward 5 years: my father died of a massive stroke and left my mother in tens of thousands of dollars debt. Guess who is responsible for helping to dig her out?

(And of course, no one in my family even *remembers* the intervention.)

The moral of the story: go ahead and try your intervention. But it won’t work and you’ll lose the relationship to boot.

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