This was inspired by a question someone asked about suicide in the family.
My brother’s wife (30 years old) is dangerous. She is a paranoid schizophrenic who does illegal drugs, drinks about 20 alcoholic drinks a day (I AM NOT KIDDING), and dissappears with her girlfriends for days at a time going to weekend-long parties and having sex with anyone she wants. My brother and her have 2 children, age 8 and 6.
They live in Ontario and there, unless there is physical violence the children will not be taken away from the mother. If my brother divorces her, she will get custody of the kids because the court system’s attitude in Canada is that kids always need to be with their mother – even a crazy, coke-snorting alcholic mother. So he stays to protect and care for the kids.
I consider this behavior dangerous, but the law does not. I wish I could do something about this. Has anyone else dealt with anything like it?
She is unemployed – she can’t work nobody will hire her. The few jobs she has had never last more than a week as she either shows up drunk, or has sex with someone, or gets in fights or does other crazy stuff.
My brother is a high school teacher and makes good money, but they are constantly broke because she blows all their money on drugs.
Oh and for those who will say document her behavior….
you don’t understand how liberal canada is. Drugs are not considered to be something that makes you unfit. She has been in the hospital for a cocaine overdose twice. There are police records of her drug use. They won’t do anything. She could sing and dance in court about her being high and drunk and nobody would care.