Some mothers are very protective of their children and will do anything not to face the truth that their child messed up. My grandmother is the same way with my uncle. He has been in jail multiple times for DUIs and is an alcoholic. He is in his 50s and still living at home and can't keep a job. He is always drunk. However, my grandmother still insists that he has stopped drinking. This is even when he is sitting there drinking a beer. She is the same way about my cousin who got put in military jail for drug problems. Of course he never did drugs and was framed by his ex-wife. And let's forget about his expulsion from high school for the same thing. She has put herself in debt and spent all of my grandfather's retirement money on bailing the 2 of them out of jail.
What is even worse is that my dad, who is the best of her 3 sons, is the black sheep of the family. He can never do anything right. And I am the one always asking for money. I find this funny because I have never asked anyone, not even my mom, for money. And I have been pretty broke from moving and being unemployed.
Families are dysfunctional. I have learned just to laugh it off. And of course move half way across the country to get away from them.
