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Dealing with your parents' alcoholism, drug abuse and/or mental illness for 18 years and being none too enthusiastic to continue to do so is one situation. It
by jstarfish 9y ago
Dealing with your parents' alcoholism, drug abuse and/or mental illness for 18 years and being none too enthusiastic to continue to do so is one situation.
It gets worse when they start stealing, destroying property and procuring drugs, and you find it's too late to get rid of them thanks to eviction/tenancy laws.
Not everybody's families are Rockwell portraits.
- brandonmenc 9y agoI addressed those cases in my comment, but I'm specifically talking about stubborn boomers grasping on to shreds of independence and wanderlust when they don't have to. It seems a significant number of the people featured in these articles fall into that category.