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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister is an alcoholic, has been for 35 years.  It’s gotten so bad the last 10 years that she can’t drive anymore or go out alone due to anxiety.   She has two adult children, both females.  My mother was there for the children a lot.  The girls witnessed their mother get arrested for public drunkenness, fall down stairs, pass out a lot.   One example is when they were elementary school age they would call my mother because they couldn’t wake their mother up.   That had to be tough.

Currently my mother, their grandmother, is sick and needs a lot of help.  There’s three daughters and six grandchildren.   The only ones not there for her are my alcoholic daughter and her two children.   No cards, no calls, nothing.  I can’t understand it.  [/quote]

For the alcoholic sister it is all about the disease and getting the next fix. It is really unrealistic to expect any caregiving from the alcoholic sister.  It would not be safe for your Mom to be getting care from an alcoholic family member. In my Dad's later decades he was eating very little food and mostly drinking his calories. He started drinking around 9:45 am.  You do not want an alcoholic providing care to a senior citizen.

The two daughters of the alcoholic sister would have grown up in a very messed up childhood and have their own struggles.

In AlAnon I learned that I can only control me. The others in the family are responsible for themselves.[/quote]

This is an insightful response.[/quote]

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