So my parents just told me that I'm not allowed to have beer in the house because my brother has a drinking problem...

Your fault for living with your parents. It sucks, but their house, their rules.

Why are you living with your parents if you are a grown man?

bummer dude 1/10

Bs b.s. wrote:

Why are you living with your parents if you are a grown man?

Do you know how much rent is now and days?

You're not a grown man until you aren't living with your parents anymore.

Go get your own place, then you can do as you please.

Also, your brother will continue to have a problem until:

1) He realizes he has to STOP drinking, not "slow down".

2) You and others around him realize (and make sure he understands) it's not that he doesn't have "self control" but that he has the disease of alcoholism.

BUT...you need to work on YOU. Be a man and go get your own place, and if you can't for some reason of which I am not aware, then quit being a baby and just adhere to the rules of the house you are living in.

Yeah, you're a "grown man" still living with your parents. Betting they still pay your car insurance, phone plan, and health insurance. Can't have it both ways, Peter Pan. Grow the eff up.

If you can drink legally it means you are over 21 and still living at home. Your parents get to set the rules for their house. If you don't like them you can always leave.

You lack so much character you'll be blind to the feedback you receive here.

Better listen to your parents. Otherwise they might take away your play station.

Alcoholism is a serious issue, one that destroys lives and is very hard to beat. Your brother probably has a serious problem that could ruin his life. I get it, you can control your drinking, its lame if you have to go out to a bar or restaurant just to have a drink after work. But your brother is family. Does your desire to have a few drinks really trump your brother's well being? I assume you're like early 20s. Look, you'll move out soon right. Until then, because of your brother's issues, you should just not keep alcohol at the house. Even if you don't like your brother that much, you should do it because its the right thing to do.

I completely agree with OPs parents

solution? switch to weed

2/10. You left out that you're 32 and your bro is 38. Both of you need to move out of the trailer, grow the f up and dry out!

If you can't abide by a simple. common sense request then you are an alcoholic too.

Your living situation makes you a perpetual adolescent. As such, you should be subject to the same rules and curfews as other social laggards.

If you’re sitting around the house drinking enough to where this represents a major imposition, maybe you have a drinking problem as well.

Are you high? Its shark week!

A. M. E. R. I. C. A wrote:

Bs b.s. wrote:

Why are you living with your parents if you are a grown man?

Do you know how much rent is now and days?

I know how much rent is because I am a functioning adult and pay my own rent.

What a shock to find that LR is mostly populated by people who have no understanding of how difficult it is to get out on your own in the modern economy where every college grad doesn’t have a $50K job waiting for them.

I bet your family's favorite sponsored track event is the Pre Classic. Am I right?

Actually my wife has a sister who is a reformed alcoholic and parties at her mom's house don't include alcohol.

Parents often really try hard to help their kids when they are in trouble.

This isn't really about you is it?