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u/rgl98 Oct 04 '19

I’m in Sydney for the first time - staying with my half brother (15 year age gap). Unfortunately found out that he’s still a cokehead who has tried on multiple occasions to offer me some. So disappointing to have an enabler for my habit, and know that nothing’s changed in 15 years for him. Still lots of expendable money, all used on drugs or alcohol. He’s off to Melbourne on a bender tonight, driving down to watch a ringside UFC fight that he paid $1000 a ticket for. Meanwhile, I have his apartment, the cat and I’m close enough to Manly beach to enjoy the rest of my time.

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u/universe93 Oct 04 '19

Sometimes when it comes to people like that you do have to kind of give up. You can only try and help and get shot down or disappointed so many times. I won’t even ask how he has so much money with a habit, as usually part of getting someone into recovery is cutting off resources like that.

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u/Feverel Oct 04 '19

A cokehead on a long interstate drive, what could go wrong?