We will help you get your mom off drugs!

My mother-n-law was argueing with my wife, I was pretty drunk and I punched her (not in the face, an upper cut to the ribs) we don’t think anything was broken, I apologized, can we move on from this?

My dad spent 6 months in jail earlier this year and has twice been tested positive for crack by his P.O. in recent months. He’s been doing crack cocaine for 5 or 6 years. He pays for absolutely nothing (no mortgage, no food, no utilities, no insurance) and makes about $800 every two weeks on workers compensation. My mother makes the mortgage and all bills and makes about $70,000/year after taxes.

Since my dad has a very current drug record, will my mom be forced to pay alimony if they divorce?

The house and mortgage are both in my mothers name.

Any help and sources will be great.
Thanks for your answers…I’m 21 actually, we have no minor children in our household. It may be worth noting that my mother also pays a large portion of mine and my siblings tuition. We receive nothing from our father.

I really want to help a friend of mine who is an alcohol addict. I think a big factor of what made her an addict was the fact that she grew up in a home wherein one of her parents (her dad) also drinks alcohol profusely. Her mom is almost always away, so my friend has always been left on her own to fend for herself. I feel bad that she has a family like that. She’s always spending nights sleeping over at my house, and she’s more like a sister to me now, so I really want to help her.

my mother had called the cops on her boyfriend for abuse, he went to jail and then got out. she had put charges in him and the cops got the restraining order against him and myself, we went to court and testified, now can she drop the charges and the restraining order and put him in a rehab center. for drugs?

My mom is almost certainly an alcoholic. She cannot live without wine. She sneaks around with it, drinks it in coffee mugs so we don’t “notice” and hides these mugs all around her house.

My sister lives close to her (we are both grown & gone, but have another younger sibling still living at home), I live about an hour away. My sister told me that my mom came over the other day and was drinking one of those mini-wine bottles you can buy in a four pack. She said before my mom left that she drank another one and my sister questioned her about it. My mom’s response was “I have to go home and cook dinner and I’ll be buzzed, but I can hide it well”.

My sister said she contemplated calling the police on her because she was obviously driving while intoxicated, although she only lives about a mile away.

She has already agreed to not drink at home, only when she goes out. My step dad made her agree to this otherwise he said he was going to ask for a divorce. She agreed to it, but now she “goes out” with her friends every chance she gets. She goes out like she’s a single person and sits at the bar… she even smokes cigarettes now and hides them in her sock.

Part of me wants to think that this is all a huge joke, but I know it’s not. I don’t know what to do. Our relationship is being strained, and she is acting like a child. She is not being a mother, she is being a rebellious, selfish teenager.

I know that if she continues drinking, my stepdad will divorce her and she won’t have anything. I am about ready to stop talking to her because of her behavior. I am worried about my little brother at home, he is still in high school and a fragile person. I am scared that she will harm his future because of her actions.

What can I do?
My stepdad, sister and I talked about an intervention yesterday. We would have our priest there… then we would tell her she has to go to rehab or else. Would this work?
Thank you dawn, we have had many family meetings, and one on one discussions with her and whenever we do, she accuses us of “ganging up on her” although we are all very neutral and calm about it.

I have thought about having my brother live here with me, which he would probably do if the situation gets worse.

My stepdad is at his wits end with her. This has been going on for YEARS.

Ok long story short. My mother is an alcoholic and always has been. She doesnt drink every day or anything but when she does drink she usually throws these huge overly dramatic fits and usually clames how she wants to kill herself and all kinds of crazy things. I am now 26 and have a family of my own and live in a different state. Yet my 19 year old sister still lives at home with her and has to put up with her fits every couple of days. We are both worried that she is going to hurt herself or someone else and would not forgive ourselves if she did. She claims that shes already tried to get help which i think shes full of it because i have never seen it. I cant drag her down to rehab because i live in a different state and my sister is not as independent as i and is really having a hard time with it. Any advice from anyone please. I dont want to burry our mother at 50 years old. THanks in advance
Ok I just want to clear up the fact that I dont really have to deal with her anymore but my sister does. Even if she moves out I still am worried she will do something and end up killing herself. Shes already gotten 2 dui’s so cant drive. When she drinks the fits arent just screaming…she gets very violent and breaks things and does stupid things like walk into the middle of a main highway and such. So its not just a case of her being drunk all the time. Then she blames us for being so “critical” and embarrassing her infront of people.

I’m 17 and my EX girlfriend Brooke overdosed on heroin this morning. She is in the hospital and is in pretty bad shape. I feel so bad i still love her we dated for 2 years and then broke up after i cheated on her and my son Joesph was born as a result of my one night stand. We broke up for awhile however we quickly got back together when she got pregnant. Drugs was always the biggest problem in our relationship. She was even using during her pregnancy She got an abortion without my knowledge because she was worried she wasn’t going to be a good mother and couldn’t kick drugs. I was pissed and we broke up again despite my love for her. I was shocked and scared by her OD i what should i do to help her i don’t want her to die?
i don’t do drugs

theres this girl i know who is a real nice person but she smokes crack…what bothers me the most about it is she’ll do it with her litle son in the same room sleepin….shes sellin drugs out of the hotel she stays at..i saw her last night and she basically really broke down..wasnt even herself…im worried about her and think she needs help…i know she doesnt want to keep smoking…but i know she wouldnt willingly go to treatment….i feel for her son, i grew up with a mother addicted to crack….its nothin anyone should have to go through…i just dont know what to do, maybe i care too much maybe i should just let her do her thing but part of me wants to call the cops let them know whats going on cuz thats the only way she’ll stop….but at the same time i dont want her endin up in jail….wat should i do?? and also say i do call the cops, would it be annoymous? there would be no way she could find i called right? just please let me know what i should do w/ this situation…

My mother is an alcoholic. She just spent 8 days in a detox/behavioral health facility, lost her job and is already drinking again…she’s been out 1 week and has gotten drunk twice since.

I get so frustrated with her- I am seriously about to lay it all on the table. I can no longer put my own family through the drama that she causes. I have a husband, kids (7, 5 & 8 months), I work full time and am a full time student. Here alcoholism is effecting every aspect of my life. I am about to cut her out of it, I have tried and tried to help her, but there comes a time when you can only help someone so much before they are willing to help themselves…

in a coma, do you think he should have got more itme or less time, that is what happens when you drive drunk and now his life is ruined, the mother is in a coma and she lost her baby all because he got behind the wheel while he was drunk.

http://www.nj.com/hudsoncountynow/index.ssf/2007/08/jersey_city_cop_in_fatal_skywa.html