Cancel that Family

 After my dad had allowed me to write checks on his bank account for about 20 years, one of my brothers went through the statements and told my parents and the other brother that I have been "stealing" from him to the tune of six figures. My parents are senile enough that they don't even know what is going on, and they agree with whoever is with them, lately being that brother. So now I am completely the villain of a family where I reigned as the Queen Bee all of my life. It is completely out of my control, and I have decided to let them all go.

 A week ago I phoned my parents, my mother answered, and she immediately began yelling at me that it was all my fault that they had to move into a smaller apartment. I told her that I had canceled their reservation because she and Dad had decided to move in with me. She said in a mean voice (I am sure she has early-stage Alzheimer's) "we NEVER had decided to move in with you--we were just considering the possibility (not true: they called me two days after deciding to move in with me, to tell me that they had changed their mind (lol). 

 So they don't remember anything, and are completely under the control of my brother. I cannot stand to be in the same room with him, and now he has convinced my parents that I am a thief, and that he and his wife are integral to their survival. 

 I have a nice friend who is an attorney who counseled me to let things that I cannot control go, put them in a box, and throw the box in the trash. So I had to put my creepy family in the box, even though my dad was so good to me for all of those years. Well, maybe I won't put him in that box yet: but I know that I cannot see him so long as my brother and his wife are around, and I have no way of knowing when they will return to their sty.