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The Freedom of Forgiveness

His idea of supporting himself was to mooch off my mom. Now the fact that my mom would secretly, and sometimes openly, give him money was troubling to me as well as my stepfather and my older brother. This issue kept us all at odds with my younger brother. In my opinion, I considered him to be a bum. He was very disrespectful to my mother in many ways that I would not tolerate if I saw them. For example, he would argue and even curse at her at times. We were constantly at odds. Often we would engage in physical fights, always initiated by me because it pained and angered me to see him use my mother and play on her emotions to get money from her.

And, just like a mother, she always defended him and at times got angry at me for the way I treated my younger brother, even though it was all because I didn’t like the way he would treat her. But they tell me that’s a mother’s love, and I will never understand a mother’s love. She defended him, sneaked money to him, and allowed him to live in the house even when my stepfather was adamantly against it.