Karen, Jo and Dola caught most of the issues, so I'll try not to repeat, but I might, a bit. :-)? ?
Turns out the mom IS a teacher, and is listed as having "a?16 year old, two 14 year olds, and a 6 year old."
So if the angry step-daughter was one of the 14 year olds when that teacher bio was posted, she's also being compared to a step-sibling her own age, and one older, and one younger.? Sometimes I think birth order is over-rated, and then sometimes I see something like this which puts a huge spotlight on one's position in a group in flux.
"Her mother is an alcoholic and drug addict. She would often disappear in the middle of night. . . .Her mother would promise to her that she would change and never would."
Alcohol and drugs are stronger than most people are.? It can be a bit like an alien presence that takes over one's body, and will defend itself strongly if the person is making any idle promises or deals that could prevent the alcohol or drugs from having their happy way.? It is NOT easy for an addict to just "decide" not to keep using, drinking, whatever it is.??
Those who don't have a tendency toward addiction, or who are abstinent, or for whatever reasons aren't addicts or alcoholics can casually (and cruelly) think (and express) that they are a superior sort of human, with great "self control," or virtue, when it might be more like the luck of the genetic dice-throw.? ?People are as different around that as they are around shoe size and nose shape and musical ability, and if you're thinking right now, "Yeah but those can be inherited," BINGO!? It's not more virtuous to wear a smaller shoe size.? It might be lucky (more options, less storage space).? I'm not an alcoholic and my sister is.? That was lucky, on my part.? I got a lucky DNA blend (in that aspect; she lucked out in some others).
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