families can drive you up the wall.

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Im a married mom of 4 children. In fact, maybe it has nothing to do with anything, but Im the only one of my own family with my own family. Yet - Everyone comes running to me. There is a war at home at the moment. My dad is terribly depressed and has given up on everything. It almost sounds like he is in the early stages of dementia/alzheimers. The doc put him on tablets the other day. He stopped taking them as he said they made him feel drowsy. He has given up and is always ranting, raving, etc. There is a lot of anger, and he wont allow any of my moms siblings around. It all started up at my grandpas funeral, in the Gaeltacht. After the funeral, "the sisters" went back to the house for a meeting with my grandmother to decide how things would be on her own and my dad didnt want to stay out of it. He felt it was his business and made some nasty comments when he was told to stay out and it wasnt his business right now. Bear in mind that the brothers didnt get involved. ANyway - Im still ill, and things like this is not making me better. I seem to be the one who hears everyones problems. How many people have trouble with parents not getting along. Dad is 71 and mom is 67. There was always a lot of inlaw arguments growing up. My moms side is from the Gaeltacht and speak irish, dad hates it.