u/its_zumari

My dad(57M) started investing in Bitcoin a few years ago, and has since gone down such a rabbit hole and I don't know when it will stop.

He had a decent amount of savings from selling our previous home, and it has all been put into coinbase(I feel like it's approx. 40-75k).

My mother and I begged him not to but he refuses to listen and is following what a family friend's son has told him about crypto.

I know the market dropped for Bitcoin pretty hard and he did lose a lot of his original investment, but somehow this has fueled him to throw more money into it. It's approx 4k every month, sometimes more. I don't know how he pays for bills or the mortgage because it seems like all his checks go into Bitcoin.

I admit I don't know much about Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, but is my dad making a mistake?

I feel like he should have invested a set amount of money and started investing with the profits from his original investment. I'm worried about his retirement as well, or the likelihood of his investments tanking and having nothing to fall back on.

Please advise if I should be worried. I'm so scared for his and my mother's future and I don't have the means to financially support either of them if things go south.

My parents are a very traditional Hispanic couple. My dad is machismo and my mother indulges this by bending to his every need. Cooking him meals, cleaning, keeping house without any help. She even pays bills and fills out job applications for him because he doesn't know how to do any of it online and refuses to learn.

Whenever my mother is out of town visiting her sisters or her mother and I stay home, she tells me that I must cook my father's meals. The alternative is that he won't eat. He would rather starve than cook for himself(Although when I go out on the weekends, he will make simple meals so I know he is capable of feeding himself).

Even though she asks me to, I hardly ever do it and would just rather be yelled at by her later on for not doing it.

The reasons for this are:

1. He is a grown man who is perfectly capable of feeding himself.

2. He(and the rest of my family if I'm being honest) do not like my cooking. I don't cook Hispanic food very often. It's very labor intensive and I get yelled at for using things in the refrigerator/pantry that my mom was planning on using for a recipe later, so there's no point in me even trying.

3. My father refuses to try anything new. If I make a new dish that falls under a flavor profile that's similar to latin food that I know he would like, he won't try it simply because he's never had it before.

I want to make it clear that I am perfectly capable of cooking. I know how to cook and I do it very well.

But when I have limited options I usually just cook using things I have purchased because I don't enjoy being yelled at for using other people's things.

He won't eat the things I make with my ingredients. He can cook, he just refuses.

But every time my mother is out of town and I don't, I get yelled at for allowing him to starve.

So am I the asshole for not cooking for my dad when my mother is out of town?