...without any progress.
My family and I just moved and purchased a house near my immediate family.
1) my brothers wife told my wife and I that my brother was driving drunk. I went alone to see my brother at his house shortly after. I yelled at him too cease his foolish and reckless behavior of driving drunk. He remained silent the entire exchange.
He told our parents that he was ready to take a baseball bat to me. My parents became quite upset with me and told me they were angry with my approach and that I could lose a brother over this. I in turn responded that I could lose a brother if he dies or kills another from driving drunk.
Additional family history years ago: my brother has called me twice from hospital to be picked up related to drinking too much, and a hospital call to pick him up after a car accident he was in with a roommate that didn't survive.
2) My children were with my wife and my parents over the holidays. 2 safety concerns happened. 1 occurrence ended with 6 year old son peeing on himself and crying hysterically to waiters, believing to be lost, after my mom lead him to the bathroom then walked away. 2nd occurrence my wife found my 6 year old son on my parent's bay dock alone, supposed to be fishing with my dad. My wife waited 15 minutes before my dad showed up from the garage.
I calmly called my dad about my safety concerns. Before finishing my father grew angry and verbalized sarcastically that perhaps they shouldn't be around the children alone.
Suggestions?
Thanks.
Thank you FauxPas for your suggestions. I will be heeding them.
I have ceased discouraging my brother from anything alcohol related, and mourned the relationship lost at it's expense. I still keep in contact with him but I do not invest emotionally into him anymore.
My parents however have truly surprised me since moving here, from not discouraging their other son's drinking and driving or the threat of using a bat on his sibling. Instead they focus on my approach. And now the anger continues when I suggest they keep my children safe.
:We may have made a mistake moving closer to family, however we are now invested here for the time being with purchase of a house. We will take your suggestions and lay out the ground rules next we meet in person, and we will not rely on them to watch over the children without my wife or I present.