I'm starting to sleep too much again. I don't know how to fix this. It is driving me insane and I don't know what to do. My parents were ignorant people to get themselves in so much trouble, they started discussing the problem when it was too late. I found them resources but they won't use them. I don't understand anything anymore. I have to take care of my parents now, because they are like children, refusing to eat or sleep. They aren't thinking logically anymore. I don't understand why they are going to seek help from lawyers who have the same limited english skills as them. When they have shown time and time again to be unreliable, to lose paperwork, to fail and get flustered at court hearings. I wanted my kids to be able to see the house I grew up in. I thought everything was ok and paid for. My mom said something that made me break down earlier-how she went on a 2 hour walk to the save mart she used to buy our school supplies and how she would bring me and my brother and we'd run around getting all excited about the new school year and how she felt alone and sad at that moment because the 'beautiful' moments in her life are over. She talked about how back then my brother and I would make such a ruckus she wanted to just leave us at home for a bit so she could buy all the school supplies or groceries, but how now that we've grown up, she goes to the store alone. She regretted not being thankful or making the most of those times. It made me cry. I think we did make the most of those times, because we definitely had some very good memories in this house and in this neighborhood.
We (my mom, me and my brother) went on quite a few very nice vacations together. My dad never seemed to be part of the family. I used to feel sorry for him that he was working so hard. I still feel sorry for him, but for a different reason. What kind of idiot allows someone like a greedy older brother put their name on every contract correlating to every piece of property you own? What kind of person allows said brother to steal from your company so that you take out the equity on your home out to pay for the debt and attempt your company afloat? Who waits until that brother dies to start addressing the debt issues? When foreclosure is imminent and your wife and children will become homeless?
I was never close to my father. He was always working or arguing with my mom, which my mother took everytime. She always agreed with his plans because he never shared any of the paperwork with her, even though she owned part of the company. I want to take it to court and ruin his brother family, all fifteen offspring that lived off of my dad's blood and sweat, who all have houses worth a million. They spent all of my dad's company money on homes and cars and my dad has lived in the same crappy (what I used to think) one story house for the past 20+ years. What is wrong with this person. It's not being unselfish or altruistic, it's being stupid and naiive to put the safety of your family on the line just to appease your older sibling's spending habits.
I tell this story to people and they don't believe me. Who could possibly be that stupid. I'm young, but I remember when I was in elementary school I had talked to a friend about my parent's problem. I knew it was a problem, and that it could easily be solved by taking it to court, but my father had told me not to talk back to my elders when I brought up the option. It was infuriating. I didn't want to talk to my dad anymore. It was just a budding problem back then, they could have taken care of it. But they didn't Where was my mom in all of this? She had the legal power to do something about it, being the co-owner of the company. She could have talked to her friends about what steps she could have taken to secure the home she lived in. But she just
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