1 Name: Menace : 2014-08-14 02:11 ID:PJcMmltn [Del]
The title is a LITTLE dramatic I will admit, but is how I feel. I'm 16 years old and live in a house with my mother, sister, grandma, grandpa and uncle. For the most part we are a pretty sound family, except for my uncle. Let me give you my uncles back story, dropped out of school at 17 and has been leaching off my grandmother ever since. The fact that he technically has a mental illness (he isn't able to learn) combined with serious anger issues, rudeness, and otherwise repulsive behavior he is the bad apple in this mostly good family.
On to the gist of it, then. My uncle is slowly killing my family from stress. My grandfather is a man who has worked for sixty years and still does to provide for us, so when he comes home he expects to rest. He, however, doesn't get it due my uncles smashing, slamming, burping, and loud music/TV at night.
My mother went to prison and recently got over, turning over a new leaf. She got a job and is making decent income to help out gramps. That being said most of her money is spent on my uncle and the house to keep him at bay.
My grandmother has been taking care of him for forty years and is slowly losing her mind. She has diabetes and from my uncle constantly making her yell and so forth her blood sugar is always fluctuating causing her to come in and out of consciousness. (She sits for minutes staring into nothing just sweating away)
Now, you may read this and think, the uncles the only problem, kick him out! I'm with you, there. Except for this one small thing... money.
From years of paying for trashed apartments, broken appliances, and living fees, my grandmother is in debt. My grandmother hasn't worked since she met my grandfather, so she has no retirement fund to fall back on. Meaning her only consistent way to pay off said debt is from my uncles mental illness checks.
I have no idea what to do, guys... if this keeps up I'll have no family left at all.
