So my father is 75, losing his hearing and memory but he has been filled with a lot of insecurities over his life, so that now he single mindedly only tries and prove himself to those around him. His mother, his brother and my mother have all put him down for decades, leading to this. The sad part is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and so he hasn't been able to do too well at business, because he is trying to get to success sooner than usual by taking less than usual means.

Recently he was duped by a sweet talking ahole, who basically took advantage of his shit home situation, praised him endlessly and pushed him to try applying for business loans; which he then stole and ran off, leaving my father the accused in multiple cases against him. Apparently the guy forged multiple signatures including my fathers, my mothers, mine and other peoples too.

We've all been dealing with the fallback with more cops and lawyers than i have encountered in my entire life for a year now. But my father wants to keep pumping money into other ventures to try and make more money but still in whatever means necessary, instead of going slow.

I used to be able to not yell at him while my mother did and tried to talk to him and explain things to him before all this happened, but seeing him double down has made me lose my mind it feels like. I keep trying to urge him to be cautious but he says he's gonna what he feels he needs to do. And then I'm just yelling at him to stop, which i know is counter productive but what the hell else can i do.

I don't know. Aitah?

Edited to clean the language up.