When my lazy, spoiled son crossed a line, I made an unthinkable decision: to swap lives for seven days with a homeless man he mocked. He’d learn hard lessons… or be out. What could go wrong?

I hadn’t seen the world outside of work and home for a long time. Since my husband passed, everything became one big responsibility.

I worked all day, and when I came home, there was a pile of things waiting for me — cleaning, laundry, cooking.

But all of that — for whom?

For Eidan, my 30-year-old son, who sat at home, waiting for someone to solve his problems.

“Mom, I can’t work right now, I don’t know what to do.”

That is how almost every conversation ended when I asked him to stop sitting on my neck.

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“You’ve been sitting at home for two years, Eidan! You’ve completely lost any motivation, and I can’t keep carrying all of this on my own!”

“I just want some peace.”

“Peace won’t pay the grocery bills.”

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Only my late husband had any influence over him. But I… well, I simply couldn’t throw him out into the street. The only thing he agreed to was going for walks with me in the evening.

One of those evenings, as we saw a man sitting on the curb. His clothes were dirty, his face worn out. He held only an empty paper cup in his hands. Eidan stopped, noticing his glance.

“Sir, can you spare me some water, please?”

“What, are you kidding me? Maybe I should order you a pizza too? Get lost.”