"I have been estranged from my brother for years because of his constant attempts to bleed me dry. He is a financial mess and always has a flash in the pan get rich scheme. His lies ended my engagement when he convinced my fiancé to cosign a loan that my brother automatically defaulted on-and then laughed when asked for the money back. According to him, he was innocent, and I was a fool for paying my ex back out of my savings."
"His irresponsibility didn't end there. He had two boys with a woman that already lost her first child to CPS. Then when she got prison time for assault, he dumped the boys with our mother. The boys bounced between their grandmother and him, including his flirtations with homelessness, most of their lives. My mother refused to even attempt to get legal custody so I kept my distance for my own sanity."
The narrator has been estranged from a brother for years because he repeatedly exploited and financially drained family members. The brother pursued get-rich-quick schemes, convinced the narrator's fiancée to cosign a loan that he defaulted on, and mocked requests for repayment. He fathered two boys with a woman who lost a child to CPS and later went to prison, leaving the boys with their grandmother. The boys alternated between their grandmother's care and their father, sometimes facing homelessness. The narrator remodeled a house to accommodate mother and nephews when the mother became ill, sacrificing space and privacy so the boys could finish high school.
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