Asking Eric: I'd rather my father lived in a retirement home than with my slacker, pot-smoking brother

A reader expresses frustration over their father living in a messy home with their unemployed brother, preferring a retirement facility instead.
The house is a mess. My father sits in a chair all day looking out a window.
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