It’s not that simple. My brother isn’t alcoholic just because he went through a grueling 6-year losing cancer battle with his young wife starting when their three babies were 1-3 years old. He’s not that weak, and could’ve overcome that. He also was working for my ex-HB for 25 years, and being treated like shit there; in the same manner that I was being treated in my marriage. He & his wife agreed for him to work there long enough to build a nest egg, and then get out and he would start his own construction business. The best-laid plans…once she was sick, he got stuck there.
And it wasn’t even a quarter century of that that did him in. My mother got to my baby brother last -he was the youngest and last of the 5 victims in our family of 8 that my mother rejected, and with all that narcissistic abuse entails: the made-up stories to others about how terrible he was and what a ne’er-do-well he was; the unequal treatment amongst siblings, where Baby Sister was being lavished with tons of high-end clothes, etc., but he (Baby Brother) couldn’t even score a new pack of underwear, even though he’d grown so much between 12 and 16 years old; and that sort of thing.
I don’t know why I’m trying to talk about the devastating destruction of alcoholism in my family on a site devoted to alcoholism, when that no longer seems to be a topic of interest or focus here. It’s just the weather and a “big shout out to everyone”.
So on that note, I will end my time here at MWO. Most everyone moved on, Mick moved on now; and I will take a clue and move along too. But thanks for our time together!
And it wasn’t even a quarter century of that that did him in. My mother got to my baby brother last -he was the youngest and last of the 5 victims in our family of 8 that my mother rejected, and with all that narcissistic abuse entails: the made-up stories to others about how terrible he was and what a ne’er-do-well he was; the unequal treatment amongst siblings, where Baby Sister was being lavished with tons of high-end clothes, etc., but he (Baby Brother) couldn’t even score a new pack of underwear, even though he’d grown so much between 12 and 16 years old; and that sort of thing.
I don’t know why I’m trying to talk about the devastating destruction of alcoholism in my family on a site devoted to alcoholism, when that no longer seems to be a topic of interest or focus here. It’s just the weather and a “big shout out to everyone”.
So on that note, I will end my time here at MWO. Most everyone moved on, Mick moved on now; and I will take a clue and move along too. But thanks for our time together!
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