Hi Auntie,
I hope you are doing great. I have been your regular reader for years and I find your valuable advice quite productive. Ours is a joint family, where we are married brothers living with the parents. Being the elder one, I often share financial burden alongside my father.

My younger brother has a public sector job, but he tends to rely on us and this is implicitly approved by parents. He is a drug addict, for which he has remained in a rehabilitation centre for months, but it was futile. The organisation he works for often complains about his regular leaves and non-serious behaviour. We have spent all our energies by arguing a lot with him, but he seems senseless.

My father and mother have become cardiac patients because of him. I often request them to leave him to God’s mercy, but my father is still going from one office to another, requesting officers not to penalise him, and it has been happening quite frequently. This hapless........

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