Disney1fan2002
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My brother is staying with me for a few days. Him and my SIL are temp separated, until he gets help for his drinking. She called and thanked me for taking him in, and she said he felt bad he wanted to give me some money for food, but didn't have any.
I told her is he could manage to stay at my house for 4 days and not take a drink, that would be payment enough.
He is eating me out of the house! WHO eats like this? He doesn't even ask if it is something intended for someone else. No moderation either. I don't mind if you take a few handfuls of chips, but to sit with the whole bag, and finish it off? So far he has eaten, 2 bags of chips, ate the rest of the kids ice cream, used up all the deli meat I bought for lunches ( I bought after he was here, so I bought extra accounting for him, not realizing he would eat it all). Ate all but one of 6 bulkie rolls. (outside of a meal, he ate the rolls as a snack).
Maybe because he is not drinking, he needs to eat, but good LORD. Even my own DH will ask if he can eat the rest of something before he finishes it off. ( to be sure it is not someone elses)
The other thing he has done is cranked a fire in the woodburning stove everyday. We don't keep our house hot. We are used to 62-64 degrees, and with the mild weather, we don't need a fire for that temp. 2 days now, it has been 74 degrees, I kid you not. I have been dying. My kids are sick, and the house if full of hot, dry air. After hinting to him for 2 days that we don't usually have a fire, I finally told him today, NO FIRE. It is going to be almost 50 degrees outside.
I love my brother, and I want him well. I hope he works things out with his wife quickly. I can't afford to take him in.
He is leaving today to go to work, he stays at a hotel up the street from his work, but he is off from Sunday-Wednesday. He didn't want to pay the hotel. So I took him in on his days off. he does not work near here, so he will go back to the hotel for the rest of the week, to work, and hopefull, have someone else to take him in for next week. If he needs to come back here, he will have to do his own food shopping.
I told her is he could manage to stay at my house for 4 days and not take a drink, that would be payment enough.
He is eating me out of the house! WHO eats like this? He doesn't even ask if it is something intended for someone else. No moderation either. I don't mind if you take a few handfuls of chips, but to sit with the whole bag, and finish it off? So far he has eaten, 2 bags of chips, ate the rest of the kids ice cream, used up all the deli meat I bought for lunches ( I bought after he was here, so I bought extra accounting for him, not realizing he would eat it all). Ate all but one of 6 bulkie rolls. (outside of a meal, he ate the rolls as a snack).
Maybe because he is not drinking, he needs to eat, but good LORD. Even my own DH will ask if he can eat the rest of something before he finishes it off. ( to be sure it is not someone elses)
The other thing he has done is cranked a fire in the woodburning stove everyday. We don't keep our house hot. We are used to 62-64 degrees, and with the mild weather, we don't need a fire for that temp. 2 days now, it has been 74 degrees, I kid you not. I have been dying. My kids are sick, and the house if full of hot, dry air. After hinting to him for 2 days that we don't usually have a fire, I finally told him today, NO FIRE. It is going to be almost 50 degrees outside.
I love my brother, and I want him well. I hope he works things out with his wife quickly. I can't afford to take him in.
He is leaving today to go to work, he stays at a hotel up the street from his work, but he is off from Sunday-Wednesday. He didn't want to pay the hotel. So I took him in on his days off. he does not work near here, so he will go back to the hotel for the rest of the week, to work, and hopefull, have someone else to take him in for next week. If he needs to come back here, he will have to do his own food shopping.
No advice though.
