I've been the scapegoat all of my life. My older brother was always the Golden Child, and because he was much larger than me and eight years older, when my mother wasn't beating the shit out of me, she would allow him to. This resulted in a broken thumb, many bruises, and my brother growing up not perceiving me as human, but as a punching bag. I've made a few posts on here before about moving back home and my brother pushing me out of a moving vehicle and my family siding with him, but, my, how the tables have turned!

NMom LOVES bragging about status. Older brother is an opiate addict now, and he draws disability and blows his check in two days on drugs. He assaulted me a couple of weeks ago; NMom was a witness, and when the cops arrived, even though I had a recording of the event, the cop spoke with my brother first, then with me, and told me my brother claimed I swung at him first. My brother is easily 6'2" and 300lbs, I'm barely 5'6", there's no fucking way I would try to fight him. Nmom was a witness, and when they asked her, she lied through her teeth and said, "I don't know, my husband isn't here, I can't answer anything. Do you know my husband? He does 'X.'" The cop kinda looks at her side-eyed and then tells us I can put an EPO out on him, but he can do the same to me. Funny how she saw him assault me but when the cops came she wanted to brag about her husband and conveniently forget that her daughter was just shoved to the ground by her heroin addled son.

A couple of days later, my older brother is hard up for money(which Edad always gives him because "It's better than him stealing it!") and my father tells him he has no money. Brother isn't happy, so he starts blowing up our phones, and eventually goes outside and starts knocking on the windows. Parents FUCKING FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS call the cops on him, and one of the cops who shows up is the one from when I was assaulted days earlier. My brother kept telling the cops(mind you, I'm in bed at this time, unaware) "My sister owes me money(I don't, and he's stolen plenty from me) and the cop told him that if he wanted to, he could file a civil suit against me but it doesn't excuse his harassment. The cops made him leave.

He came back a few hours later, went into his room, and passed out. The cycle continues!

Last night, before I went to bed, I was discussing everything with NMom(with a grain of salt) and she said to me, "He wonders why he isn't the favorite anymore, this is why!" Cool, so you just admitted he has always been your GC/favorite, and now I'm temporarily one because I work a full time job, moved back in with you guys to pay off my debt and build up my credit, but now I'm stuck again here in this abusive cycle because I'm paying the bills you can't pay because you're giving my brother to buy drugs every day.