My brother in rehab

[PinkPavlova]

I have mentioned on a previous post of mine that my brother is in rehab. My parents just phoned me saying how amazing it was in rehab and how it was a great chance for my kids to learn not to be like him. I got really annoyed and said,”Fuck you.” and switched the phone off. Me and my brother aren’t particularly close, but he has always been struggling, but tried his best, and hearing my parents say that really angered me. AIBU?

Nice.

You've taken what they've said the wrong way... they don't mean show them not to be like him. What they mean is show them what can happen if you take the wrong path.

He's their son but that doesn't mean that they have to support him to the point of defending bad decisions and shielding him from all criticism of those bad decisions.

I'm pretty sure your brother himself would not want your kids to take the paths he has in life. I'm sure he's struggled and suffered terribly 😔 and I'm sure he's a great person, who can hopefully beat this addiction and get on the road to a happy life, but personally I would be like your parents and not want any further family members to take this path and would encourage them seeing what can happen if you do.

Bloody hell. You’ve really misread this situation.

It's actually a fairly weird thing to say (I mean, are your ten year olds looking like they have a drink problem?), but I think it would strike me as weird and illogical rather than cruel...?

There’s clearly a huge back story here but on the face of it, this post is really confusing and you don’t come off well I’m afraid.

Actually seeing what happened to my own dad at 10 years old has made me really aware of the implications of alcohol addiction.

I lost a child 8 years ago and could very easily have spiralled into alcohol addiction but seeing the end of that road at 10 years old has kept me on the straight and narrow.

So I understand completely what these parents are trying to say. That being said my own experience it was my dad, I'm not sure it would have the same emotional affect with it being an uncle, I could be wrong though.