Am I a terrible person?

@cwilson26 (2735)
United States
April 22, 2008 9:44pm CST
My brother-n-law is a 37 year old alcoholic who also does drugs a good bit. He has a girlfriend who keeps throwing him out because she can't make up her mind if she wants him or not. He was banned from my mother-n-law's apartment building because of the way he acts and now the apartment manager from the apartment he was sharing with his so-called girlfriend threw him out this time because he got drunk and told him to go f*** himself. Now he has no where to go and my husband offered him to stay here without asking me first. It's my house too! I don't want to be mean but I can't stand the guy and I don't feel one bit sorry for him because he does this to himself. If he would just get help and get off the drugs and alcohol he would have a better life but he said he doesn't need or want help. Fine if he wants to keep living his life like that it's his own problem, not ours. My mother-n-law is going to try to talk her apartment manager into letting him have his old apartment back in the same building she is in and I hope and pray that's what happens because honestly I don't want him staying here. My husband and I got into a terrible fight about this last month because the same thing happened and I said I didn't want him staying here. I went through enough when my husband was drinking and he finally quit 3 years ago and life has been better. I don't need to put up with that again. I'm stressed out enough without his brother laying around here drunk every day and adding to it, besides, I know this will just add tension to my husband and I and I don't want to keep fighting with him. I understand his brother needs a place to stay but honestly, the "boy" needs to grow up and quit acting like a little teenage boy. He will never grow up though. I say let him go stay with their other brother who lives closer and who is also a big drunk and dope-head. They can drink and get high together all they want as long as they stay away from here. So my question is: Do you think I am a terrible person for feeling this way? We have enough problems without him adding to it. Sorry this was so long but I needed to vent. Thanks for listening my friends. :)
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3 responses
• United States
25 Apr 08
well i dont think your a bit wrong you gotta do what you gotta do for yourself and if you dont wanna be around that you shouldnt have to be it dont make you a terrible person at all
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@cwilson26 (2735)
• United States
25 Apr 08
Thanks. He's not staying with us Thank God because he went back to his girlfriend but it won't last because all they do is fight and she throws him out. He won't stay here anyway unless he has to because we live out in the country away from other people and stores and he cannot handle it. I just wish he would grow up and leave his girlfriend and find his own place. :)
@jayman32 (267)
• Australia
23 Apr 08
hello, you can not help those who do not want to help themselves. no you are not a terrible person, you are a normal person reacting to an insane situation. it sounds like hubby is stuck between a rock & a hard place.. how well can you visualise? when a situation is out of my control & stressiing me out i take some time to relax, close my eye's & open my mind's eye to the energy that surrounds us, picture in your mind all that energy & draw upon it. surround yourself with it, feel the warmth flow into your body & the strength return to your mind..
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@cwilson26 (2735)
• United States
24 Apr 08
What it is, is my brother-n-law expects every one to do everything for him and everything to be handed to him. I am stressed out every day and writing and cleaning helps me releave some of that stress. Thanks for responding. :)
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
23 Apr 08
No, your husband is not helping him with his drinking problem. He needs to get his life together. The decision should have been made by both of you.
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