Our genes are the same. So I know what makes him tick. Years ago, he stood in arms way and saved my life from a man I was married to, that loved to hit every time he got a drink.  My brother, although sang gospel music and lived for God many years of his life, could not win a battle with alcohol and drugs. He is a hard working, little construction man, thats great at instrumentation.

But when you have two parents that both were alcoholics, whats the percentage you would not become one? Its very little. Ever notice when someone is drinking, they always get in the most unhealthy relationships in the world? And the person you would love for them to end up with, they just won't make it work! I really hope this woman he has now, he will hold on too. She loves him in a way few women experience in a lifetime.

I understand the addiction to cigartees, but I just can't see how someone could lose everything and not be able to shake it. But though I don't understand, its a true sickness and those that have lost their homes or jobs due to drugs or alcohol, it don't make them trash or a lower kind of life form. God still loves them and forgives them the same as me. We are from the same parents, different of course, but I'll always love him. Family lasts forever. In my circumstance, husbands come and go, but family lasts forever.

How different are you from your brother or sister?