Weekly Chat - July 25, 2022

My mother just woke me up, at 1:30AM with no explanation, to go buy bottle of wine #3. She’s been saying “this is it” and that she wants to stop for months but I never believe her, and now it’s getting worse because she says she doesn’t know how to cope with problems at her job. I’m so tired of this and just wish it would end but as soon as I try to say something about it she tells me that “she doesn’t need me to act like her mother”. My younger brother (the golden child of my siblings and I) is a full-blown enabler and doesn’t care about any of this, so I’m alone in trying to figure out how to navigate through it (not for her sake, but for mine). I care about her and want her to get better, but at this point I just need this next year to go by fast so I can move out and cut ties as soon as possible (I’m in my last year of my degree and can’t afford to move, or else I would have already).

/r/AlAnon Thread