RULE TO BREAK
“Be generous”
By all means be generous with your time, your skills, your love and your hospitality, even your money (sometimes), but there is one respect in which you should never ever be generous. Loans and friendships don’t mix. And that works both ways. If you lend one of your family or friends a lot of money and they fail to repay it, what will that do to the relationship? I’ve known people abandon their friends and go AWOL because they were ashamed that they couldn’t repay them. Do you want to lose the money and the friend? It’s happened to me. It’s even more uncomfortable with family. How are you going to get through Christmas at your parents’ house when your brother still hasn’t returned the money he promised to repay ...
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