Twice divorced, I'm married now for 14 years together for 16 years total.  I feel my marriage is crumbling around me and that is why I'm pursuing a support group to help me get through this period in my life. My husband has a 20 year old daughter who has recently been diagnosed with bipolar, multiple personality disorder.  She has caused us a lot of suffering both financially and emotionally.  She also has been forced to move in with us since she has not other place to go, and refusing to get help or seek couseling with her mental illness.  My husband feels responsible for her so always puts her needs before mine.  I have two grown children by my first husband.  My son is in the Marine Corps, is married and has blessed me with a wonderful grandaughter.  He is a "lifer" and is stationed in Okinawa.  I also have a daughter who is a single mom living with her father "my first husband" and has also blessed me with my first grandaughter who is the love of my life and also is aflicted with cystic fibrosis (anther long story).  

Recently, on Christmas Eve,  my older brother (two years) passed away with lung cancer.  I also have a younger brother and a younger sister.  I also have a mother  who is suffering with Alzheimers.  She has progressively gotten worse over the last year and my sister moved her in with her.  sister is now telling me she can no longer care for her and I have to help.  I live in florida and she lives in New Mexico which is where I grew up.  The only recourse we have is to put her into a nursing home which my sister is fighting.  The three remaining siblings are not well off so we cannot afford to put her into assisted living.