Your brother is awesome and your family is being stupid.
Thank you, bb. I just can't believe some of the things these people say. Guy Cousin said to me once how my brother 'doesn't even take care of his family' because he doesn't have a job and I was all, "What century is this?" My brother works just as hard as a stay-at-home dad as GC does at his delivery job, but when GC has a day off, he drinks himself into a blackout state, while my brother spends his days off running errands for my dad and planting trees and other volunteer work. He certainly isn't a saint by any means and he still needs to work on his patience issues with the kids, but he works hard to not be our father, to not be absent from his kids life and to never raise a hand to them. My dad worked 60 hours a week and paid the bills and put food on our table but he was rarely involved in our lives and when he was home we walked around on eggshells all the time. My brother deserves some support for it.
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Thank you, bb. I just can't believe some of the things these people say. Guy Cousin said to me once how my brother 'doesn't even take care of his family' because he doesn't have a job and I was all, "What century is this?" My brother works just as hard as a stay-at-home dad as GC does at his delivery job, but when GC has a day off, he drinks himself into a blackout state, while my brother spends his days off running errands for my dad and planting trees and other volunteer work. He certainly isn't a saint by any means and he still needs to work on his patience issues with the kids, but he works hard to not be our father, to not be absent from his kids life and to never raise a hand to them. My dad worked 60 hours a week and paid the bills and put food on our table but he was rarely involved in our lives and when he was home we walked around on eggshells all the time. My brother deserves some support for it.