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Does your family sometimes seem determined to drive you crazy?

Asked by Linda_Owl (7748points) January 16th, 2010

Does it sometimes seem that your grown children continue their childhood sibling rivalry & that each of them want you to see various situations from their point of view, instead of your own? I have a schizophrenic daughter. She has caused countless problems for me & for her siblings, so their distrust of her is understandable. I know that when she is off her meds, she is a problem waiting to happen. I have had her living with me off & on for the past 6 or 7 years. Due to problems from the last time that she lived with me, I will not allow her to live with me anymore. However, when she ends up in a situation that is going to put her out on the street – I try to help her, because no matter what, I still love her. She is such a position now & I just spent money that I really did not have to put her up in a motel kitchenette. Now my son is very angry at me. My son has been staying with me while he was recovering from surgery for a work-related injury. His finances have been severely reduced & I have not pressed him to share household expenses. He has now started getting unemployment compensation, so his finances are somewhat better. So I asked him to share the expense of putting his sister up in the motel & he gave me half of the amount that I spent. This was enough to keep my mortgage payment check from bouncing. But it has made him so angry at me that he left this evening to go visit a friend so that he would not have to be here. I have a feeling that he is going to probably move back in with this friend (they have been friends for a number of years & he has lived there before when circumstances went south for him). He is an adult & has the right to live wherever he chooses, I just wish that he would understand my need to help my daughter. My other daughter will probably also have a hissy-fit when she finds out what I have done as well. It makes me want to go find a place to hide from my own family.

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