almost never. I know it kills you to see this stuff, and her nasty remarks and mean spirit is overwhelmingly hurtful to you. I stll have flash backs to this day and i am an adult with five children/grandchildren. I used to pick my mom off the floor and drag her to bed, she used to fall down the stairs and split her head open needing an ambulance. She wouldn't cook for me and just sat in her chair drinking her beer, glass after glass after glass. I was ashamed to have friends over so i would hit the streets every nite. I got into some trouble a few times and i can tell you what the back seat of a police car looks like close up. To this day, i don't know how i ever graduated from High School, and with high honors to boot. But i went every day and i did what i had to do, and i am glad i stuck it out. I was afraid to come home half the time as i didn't know what condition i would find her in, which was always a bad one anyway. I ran away a few times before i was 18 and she and her drunken husband and their drunken friend would fine me and drag me back home. I remember one night they found me at my bf's Aunt's house and dragged me to the car, my mom beat the snot of me in the back