Hi folks...
My father-in-law : the story continues
He's coming out from the hospital today. This is the 2nd time en the last 6 weeks that he's been there, but this time, the doctor's have given up. Besides being a 30-year alcoholic, he is a bi-polar who doesn't take his pills, is narcissic, spends his money like it is water and has become violent in the last few months. He tried to attack a nurse and also the ambulance driver who picked him up.
I've posted (before the problems on this site) about the fact that we receive his mail at our house, including all the bills....we also get the phone calls about the appartments he has rented (2 were reserved for april). He has told the doctors that he will take his pills, go to AA and go live in his cottage. Ha. They obviously believed this as he is now being released.
I am afraid. Afraid of this man that comes to our house in a taxi, that shows up at my husband's work, who asked friends and relatives for money (but none of them want to see him anymore), who phones me at work 4 or 5 times in a row, who phones at nite. My husband has been telling him for weeks to stop calling, and has told him thta he needs a break from his father. But nothing registers. I have a 7-year old boy and want to shield him from this man when he's not in an acceptable state. We used to see him until 2 months ago, when everything started to deteriorate.
We can stop the mail from coming by asking the post office, change our phone number, even ask the courts (eventually) that he not be allowed near our home.
But I will not sell my home or change my life for this man and his sickness. We cannot help him. But I will not let him hurt me or my family.
Discouraged