(((Beauflow)))

I understand where you're coming from very well. It sounds as though you have a pattern of jumping in to rescue your brother, because no one else does it and you care too much to see him in pain or jail.

It is hard to see the same negative patterns repeated over and over.

My sister is very similar, except she has anti-social personality disorder. My family wrote her off years ago (which I despise). Very difficult for me to accept. Since I got back in contact with her, I wrote the rest of my family off.

Anyway ~ I have had to hold myself back a bit with my sister. Because I have a history of giving all of myself to her, in hopes of helping her turn her life around. I can still talk with her, but certainly not weekly. More like every couple of months. I suppose that I'm lucky in that I'm disabled and don't have much money at all. So, my sister knows that I can't help her financially. That helps. I can't ever see myself giving up on her though.

Try to put up some boundaries to protect your own emotional health. It isn't easy to do, but you need to do it for yourself.

I wish you the very best!