My mil has never helped her parents, never worked, never saved even 1 lousy baht and tried to live on my wife's money and properties. Bad luck for her that I stepped in and explained how finance is done in the new, not feudal, global world. We save and invest in our children, not in freeloading and very dominant mothers. She now lives alone in 1 of our properties and gets a monthly allowance, just enough to make ends meet. I am not evil.