Hi ... I'm not 100% sure how all this works just yet D: so I hope I'm doing this right. Hi all, I'm hopeing to vent a little and get some help on what I can do with everything. I'm a 20 year old student living at home, I live with my elder sister, 21, my two younger brothers,9 and 15, and my parents (excluding pets). I never really thoguht we had a bad life to be honest, we've never been the richest of people but we always got by. For years now my parents have been drinking but over the last few years it's gotten much worse. They're either arguing or sleeping, taking care of my younger brother usually falls to the rest of us. They drink all the time now even in the mornings when they have to go to work, I've always been worried they'd loose their jobs... and now my mum has. She is a care worker who works looking after elderly people. She never turned up to her last job of the evening the other day so her works rang our house up and we all started worrying that something had happened to her. She was meant to pick up one of my brothers too and she never turned up. It turned out she'd decided to get drunk and drive and she got arrested, she stayed they're all night. Now she has no job, has lost her license and we're gonna get a fine we can't afford to pay... I'm scared we wont be able to afford to live in our house. My dad is on his high horse about it all now, acting like he's better when he isn't - it's only she got caught doing it. I want to move out and leave home, but I'm worried. I don't want to leave my sister as she seems to have something wrong with her (along the lines of aspergers) and I hate the thought of leaving her here as it could depress her. I'm also worried about my brothers, one is old enough to look after himself but I'm so scared my youngest brother wont get the attention he needs from them - he has dyslexia and needs help mainly with his homework and general paying attention to. Like I said before, I thought we had a pretty good life so I can't understand why they're doing all this? I want them to get help I really do, but they wont talk about it. They keep lieing about it all the time, treating us like we're all stupid - even my littlest brother notices, it upset me one day when he was trying to dare our dad to not drink for a day ... and then his sad face when he told me that he couldn't even do that. I don't want him to grow up thinking it's normal for parents to act this way. Anyways, sorry for the really long post ... I was wondering if anyone could help me either understand why they're doing it, or what I should do about it... Thank you
