"This is not my beautiful home..."

So how did he get to this place in time?


Here is my brother's idea.

If you recall from earlier listings, he is quintessentially selfish and self absorbed and narcissist in the clinical sense. He contributed part of his pay check but nothing else to our family life. He reaped the benefits he wanted - comfortable home, good home-cooked food, kids around but not intruding, pretty (yes, I am pretty) and smart (yes I'm smart - I know self praise stinks but these are just basic truths) wife but never spent a minute interacting with the kids, never nourished a relationship between us, never worked on making a home by maintaining the house or working on making it nicer, cut the grass and shoveled once for each over 17 years... You get the picture. He just lived his life exactly as he wanted without any thought of others and what it means to be a family. So now he finds the rug pulled out from under him. He will no longer have the benefits. He is out. He cannot handle two parts of this (minimally two): he cant admit his role in this and he cant handle what his life has become, so he has come up with an alternate reality to live in.

I agree.