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first story. Much love guys. Now today's first story comes from Recognition Dry 6-695 from the M.I-the-Arsel here subreddit.

And it says, am I the asshole here for digging into my brother's girlfriend's past and telling him the results?

My brother Adam had a rough childhood to say the least.

Our father passed away when he was under 10 from cancer.

Our mother is likely bipolar, but definitely narcissistic tendencies and abusive.

I'm older by a decade and did what I could when I could for him.

But basically, I failed to protect him and didn't understand what he needed.

All that to say that his descent into alcoholism wasn't a surprise. It was expected.

A couple of years ago, he had an incident that caused him hospitalization and began his recovery

and sobriety. He's over two years clean now, hugely due to the new

relationship he started months after his incident with a kind-hearted, lovely woman. I'll call her Eve.

She brought Eve over to meet us shortly after they met, and she's been a welcome part of our family.

She makes gifts for my kids and treats. She's always

fun to speak to and her quirkiness fits in beautifully. As we got to know her, we've learned about

how traumatic her life has been. They're kind of trauma bonded, but she's so understanding and

empathetic. She told us about her twin who passed away in high school, about her siblings and

how her parents loved him more, and treat her badly as the survivor. That was always less than.

She also had another brother who passed away in war in Iraq. That was the golden child after a twin

passed. She couldn't seem to gain her mother's approval or attention and we bonded over

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