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Should a daughter be expected to set her life aside for a mom who won’t grow up?

  • Posted on January 27, 2011 at 1:21 pm

My mom has been taken care of her whole entire life as much as I can remember. Well, my grandmom has recently had a stroke and is no longer able to take care of my mom (which by the way is addicted to crack cocaine). So I am sort of in the middle of a rock and a hard place. I have my own two children to care for and I’m barely making it. My question is, is it my responsibility to take care of my mom now? It’s either me or the streets. Has anyone her ever been in this kind of position?
By the way, I have taken steps to get her help. I had her sent to a detox for 24 hours and it kind of shook her up a bit, but after one month, she’s back out there and thinks she can leave for a couple of days and then come back and pretend she’s going to try. I really don’t think she’s fully ready and I have to look out for my children first.

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