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[quote=Anonymous]My brother was dangerously close to never launching, until he met and married a woman old enough to be his mother who took over raising him and got him out of our mom's house.  This is just a sibling's perspective, but he was incredibly coddled by our mom (partially because he was targeted for abuse by our dad), and expectations were just very low for him.  Both girls got straight A's, were presidents of clubs, played in band and sports, were in student government -- he just went to regular classes and played a couple of sports.  He never had a job in high school (both of his sisters got jobs when they turned 15) and the excuse was always football, nevermind that all of our obligations added up to way more hours.  When it's all said and done he wasn't really held to any particular standard - not for grades, not for extracurricular involvement, not for behavior, not for ambition.  I don't know if it's because he was the only boy or because he was the youngest or because that's how they treated all of us but my sister and I had each other to compete with which gave us our own motivation.  But I know it was ugly and led to him working at a pizza shop part time into his 30's, living rent free at our mom's house.  Not a good look, and it's only luck that he was able to marry a decent woman who whipped him into shape.[/quote]

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