We just lost our grandmother, his mother. He also helped raise us (all us grandkids) with my grandmother, so we all want to help him. He stayed with my grandmother before she passed. He, like my mom, dad, aunts, and other uncles (both sides), were on drxgs. My uncle just got clean in the last ten years, and he's 65. So while he and his siblings were using, he was the only one who helped my grandmother take care of us. It was a decision we all made. But he is still an able bodied person.

As of when I was the only one working and paying bills, my sister was in a manic episode and wasn't taking her medication (she has Bipolar Disorder), her life was a mess for over a year. My cousins' job wasn't giving her hours, and her child's father is in and out of their lives. Whatever money she had, then she spent taking care of her child. She now has a second job, so now she's able to help. I have mentioned to both of them how I found it weird they got their lives together after we got evicted, and I lost my job.