The House ! Part 1 .

                                                             This is a story , that was related to me a long time ago . Its basically a story of greed and control . The person who told me this story has long since departed this temporary stage we call life , but his story still resonates to this day . There's a mother involved , one man and his five sisters of which one of these sisters just happens to be his twin . Then there's the house , an all important house , a house that tore this family apart . It doesn't really matter about circumstances or excuses , at the end of the day its about a two bed roomed house .
                                                            Before I get into the story , let me just explain from the outset that the only male involved was warned about the possible importance this house would have on two brothers who happened to marry two of his sisters . He was told this by his eldest sister who just happened to be twenty years older than himself .
                                                            All of his sisters were married and had their own homes , he decided with his new wife that he would live with his mother so they could take care of her after the father's passing . It was a very good arrangement until his mother had a series of strokes making her incapable of looking after herself . After some years of nursing her ,  he and his wife were accused by these two brothers and their wives of stealing her invalidity pension and other monies . There was absolutely no truth in this , as I know myself through many conversations with him , it would never cross my mind as to his innocence .
                                                            This young couple , were left alone by these five sisters to look after his mother , and were told that part of the contract in living in the house was the looking after her . This couple were actually buying this house with the mother , but these five sisters had their own designs on what should happen to the house . I also need to add that before the father passed away he said that the house was to go to his only son who was unmarried at that stage .
                                                           This mans wife had just been diagnosed with early cervical cancer , and had to go into hospital for an operation in relation to this illness . She was in hospital for a week , while he looked after his three children and his very unwell mother . During the time his wife was in hospital he asked his five sisters to look after his mother to give his wife time to convalesce , to which the response was not too encouraging or exciting .
                                                           His wife came home , and after one week , one of his sisters came to the house and asked the young couple to take the mother back as they couldn't deal with her spitting on their collective floors. The response to that was , wait till she starts shitting on herself and you have to clean it up like his wife had to and then come back and have an opinion .

She had moved from the first sister to the last sister and back to the first sister in seven days. Now what I must say at this stage is that I went through all this with him as we were particularly close , and to say he was upset would be an understatement .
                                                           Things got worse for his mother , one day he came home with his wife and children to find her slumped at the bottom of the stairs where she had fallen , battered and bruised . The doctor was called and he recommended that she needed twenty four hour care and that they  had children to take care of , and could not guarantee her round the clock care . He advised him to contact the five sisters to set about getting her this care , and a meeting was to be arranged !