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He confessed that for the past 20 years he has been supporting his parents financially <strong>and damn it, he is just tired!<\/strong> What began as a modest RM500 allowance when he first entered the workforce has now ballooned to RM2,000 a month. And now he finds himself stuck in a loop he cannot break.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Never a burden to his parents<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>He emphasised that he had never been a burden to them, having completed matriculation and gone through public university on a full scholarship. Yet he has not just been sending money home, he also bought a car for them, and is still servicing a housing loan with a decade left on the clock.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Financial abuse of filial piety<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As his words went live, the comment section ignited. Netizens poured out stories of similar uphill battles. One shared that their in-laws were getting RM6,000 a month, with a BMW thrown in too, yet it was never enough. Another described how a family paid RM500 a day on traditional medication that only made things worse, swelling to RM5,000 in just two weeks. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Many began to call it what it is\u2026 financial abuse of filial piety<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Asian culture puts care for parents on a pedestal, but a growing chorus of commenters urged a real talk, encouraging adult children to draw boundaries and stop letting cultural expectations sacrifice their own wellbeing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just one man\u2019s frustration, it is a mirror to a wider struggle that quietly haunts households across the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: 123rf)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268230141,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RM2,000 Allowance, Mortgage, and Car \u2013 M\u2019sian Shares Burnout From Supporting Parents for 2 Decades - CompareHero<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Malaysian man is burnt out from supporting parents. 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