#it's especially painful to have family who are millionaires that go on cruises multiple times a year

[helly-watermelonsmellinfellon]

And it's shit like this that makes Bethy not want to be around him.

We're poor and homeless and not only was Dave secretly planning to go to a car show event with money that isn't his to spend, but he's been getting scammed into giving money to women he's cheating with. Bethy blew the whistle on him cuz he screamed at her in the van while they were supposed to be out shopping with the $20 we have left for food until July.

btw 'Brownie' is the dog that died... because Dave didn't want to take him to the vet. We had finally gotten insurance for him, and Dave didn't want to take any time out of his not-busy schedule(he had so much free time all the time back then) to take the dog in whenever he wasn't well. So, Brownie just got sick in one way or another and it piled on until he lost all energy and kept vomiting all the time.

Dave thought they'd put him down for being too sick, like they did to the last cat we had when we finally brought him in(he had a brain tumor that caused his deafness and blindness and it was too big to remove safely, so they made the decision to end his suffering). Dave is especially pissy cuz mom and I were very vocal about getting the dog help and how Dave was putting his feelings above Brownie's comfort. Well, Brownie's pain was so bad he couldn't force himself to eat for over a week and finally ended up crawling onto mom's bed and dying on her lap with a weak cough.

I haven't let Dave forget that his inaction resulted in that dog's pain getting worse and worse and that's he's selfish. And he's pulled the 'wishing he died with Brownie' thing many times before and was extra pissed when I told him, 'some of us wish you did when you act like this'. He's been acting this way for over a decade, by punching himself and screaming about wanting to die when held accountable for his actions, and his son picked it up and also does it whenever he gets in trouble for being a dick, so people will stop criticizing him. Now both of them are shocked that Dave's Autistic granddaughter now hits herself and screams the moment she's in trouble, so people will stop trying to punish her(and the moment they stop, she stops too). Neither wants to acknowledge where she gets it from.

This is what we have to deal with... because we need the extra help from his unfaithful ass. Nothing hurts the pride more than having to rely on an unreliable person because what's left of your living family couldn't be trusted to help you with anything in life.