>>81775894
>Your goal is to slowly, over time, get them to reconcile.
im trying but its hard. its like an insoluble situation
>i had a brother. when we were kids our parents drank a lot
>dad wasnt home because he was busy making money, drank all the time
>mom stayed home and drank in binges
>worse than dad and abused us
>her throat explodes and she almost dies
>gets Wenicke-lKorsakoff symptoms and forgets the time she spent binge drinking completely
>lotta bad memories get buried but my brother and i remember
>i forgave my mom and he hasnt really
>she ends up sobering up
>dad keeps drinking
>gets fired from 9 figure job because he was too much of an alcoholic
>refuses to quit alcohol
>mom gets sober and doesnt want him to drink
>he continues, and gets involved with the mafia and doing worse drugs
>ends up pulling a gun on my family and kicks my brother out of the house for taking the gun from him
>everyone moves apart from one another
>mom leaves dad, live apart for a long time and now divorcing
>brother will absolutely never forgive dad, dad also doesnt really care about apologizing compared to his pride
>forgive dad and keep trying to be there for him
>but different parts of the extended family have broken off into factions and im between all of them because didnt loosen my relationships with anyone
ive been trying to make everyone get along but i keep failing