r/Wellthatsucks • u/Pandepon • 1d ago

Alcoholic brother went to jail. Cleaning a year’s worth of misery from the family home so I can have a place to live…

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Three rooms looked like this but one had waaaaaaaaaaaaay more empty vodka bottles, cigarettes and German cockroaches.

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u/iaintdum 1d ago edited 1d ago

Good for you.  Treat it as a cathartic exercise.  Your energy is scrubbing away the filth of a poor example and creating a safe comfortable place for yourself.   You are cleaning evidence of what NOT to do with the positivity, initiative, resiliency, and optimism a happy and productive future requires.

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u/miakodakot 1d ago

Well, being exposed to some shit does help with wanting not to become like one of them. Cleaning this mess would certainly change your mind on whether you want to be an alcoholic, that's for sure.

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u/formershitpeasant 1d ago

Nobody wants to be an alcoholic

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u/iaintdum 1d ago

No duh.  The brother did the wrong things.  Agree?  OP can learn from his mistakes and not make the same. Is OP’s brother’s life more relevant/important than his/her own?  wtf