I know you made a promise to your grandfather, but if everyone else is being a S**T, then you have to be one too---tell them all that you can't pay rent on your place anymore and set a date to leave, and tell them that they have until that date to make other arrangements, whatever they want to do, but you are out of money and are out of gas and can't do it anymore. Then stick to your plan and leave. Once you are out of Grandma's house they will either step up to the plate or not. If they don't, then you will have to find some help for her from a social services agency in your area depending on what she needs. But you are too young to become a full time caregiver and everyone is taking advantage of you. The only way to stop this, is to get out and get your life back.
I am a 25 almost 26 year old female. I have moved into my grandmothers home to care for her. I still have my apartment that i need to pay for, and am a full time online college student. I can barely get enough money to get the rent paid. i shut off everything i could there so all i have to do is focus on rent. I told my grandfather before he passed that i would take care of my gram for him, now im keeping my word. However, i have no job. i don't have the time for one. Though she is starting to be able to care for herself more, hopefully in the near future i can get a job but, i dont even know how to go about telling her im getting a job. She gives me money when she wants to. The only way i get help is if i beg my aunt to come here, she lives in another state and my parents live just down the road from my grams house. nuts i think that my mom wont care for her own mother cause its disgusting. well i say get the F*** over it! I need help and i need it now. Gram refuses to let me find someone that she dont know to help. All i would like is a few nights of uninterupted sleep in my own bed. my back aches, my head aches, and im always tired. If i get my dad to watch her for an hour she yells that shes not paying me to go get my mail! Its only been three months and i m so tired of it all. I have no idea what to do, this will be my aunts third trip here and i dont know when ill see her again, I dont want out i just need help before i go crazy, i already take depression medication! Sometimes i just want to be a 25 year old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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