“Where is Alex? Shouldn’t he be taking care of you?” I asked my mom. She told me that Alex would come to visit her once in a while, but he never moved back to live with her.
I was furious. Every time I spoke with my brother, he promised that he was taking care of our mother. Just as she tried to make sense of her brother’s lies, he walked in, surprised to see me and my family there. “Hey sis, this is a surprise. Why are you back so early?” Alex asked.
“You promised to take care of mom; why would you leave her by herself?” Shirley asked.
“There are so many old people in this village living by themselves, and they are fine; even mom has been fine this whole time,” he replied.
When I questioned Alex about what he was doing with the money I had sent all year, my mother told her he used the money to gamble every weekend with his friends. “He has become popular in the village for always having extra money to gamble with,” she said.
Saddened by what my mother revealed, I conversed with my husband in private. “I think we should take mom to come and live with us,” I said. My husband wanted to take mom with us, but he was worried about financial situation.
