My family is on the verge of emotionally breaking up and financially falling apart. My name is Binh and I’m a freshman in college. My first year in college is filled with stress. My family is breaking apart because my sister and I don’t see eye to eye. My sister and I have the same goal. We want to be able to take care of my parents because they are getting old. My parents are worried that they will die soon. Mom said that my dad will die before she does around 60 yrs old. And she will die soon after. Mom regrets having children late (in mid 30s) because now we’re still young and didn’t even build a life for ourselves yet. My sister wants to everyone in the family to become nurses and doctors because she thinks that the most stable and richest field. She rules out every other things that we want to do and calls us ungrateful and stupid for doing things we want. On the other hand I’m in college already and it’s time to declare my major. I’m being forced and lectured to go into the medical field by my sister. It’s making me feel depressed because she doesn’t care what I want. She argument is that I think that everything is about me, but I have to sacrifice my life to make my parents happy. My younger brother is being affected by this too. Because he doesn’t know what he wants to do because he’s only 15. But my sister is basically asking him to give up his whole life to become a doctor even though he may not like it. My parents are arguing about the money. Mom’s company is laying off more people, and she doesn’t know if she will be next. Mom has 2 jobs, if she loses one, then we can’t keep the house. And there’s no money to put me through college. My sister values being rich in life but I believe that there’s more in life than being rich. She doesn’t understand where I’m coming from because all she cares about is making a lot of money to give to my parents so that they are support in their old age. I think that money is a small thing, but parents want to see us get married and have kids (grandchildren) before they die. I’m making me depressed because my sister is making me chose between family and my life. I know myself, and I know that if I don’t like the field then I will not do good in it. I feel really depressed, and even thought about suicide because I can’t give up one or the other. I honestly don’t know what to do. To me this is a family crisis because it causes everyone grief financially and emotionally. My family needs help. I can’t get through to my sister to understand. And I can’t support my family. I feel completely unless. My family is on the verge of emotionally breaking up and financially falling apart.