On behalf of my brother...
who is having trouble with college because of his stupid ex girlfriend, I ask you guys which words might get him back on the right track.
First of all, he only has $400 left for the rest of the semester to live on, because he buys stupid shit.
Second of all, he is not allowed to join the army because he told them he was smoking marijuana.
Apparently he has been harrassing his ex girlfriend, bothering her, insisting they go back out, arguing with her about the relationship, doing things like throwing his cell phone at her car, and last night was the real kicker: he rode her bike all the way to a frat party last night in order to talk to her, and when a guy answered the door, he asked if his ex was there and the frat guy punched him in the face! Then he pulled out a knife and told him to do it again, and he was threatened that if he didn't leave, they'd call DPS. So he walked around in their yard for a bit and yelled something like "**** [name of the frat here]!!!" as loud as he could, grabbed her bike and started riding back. And then I guess like 50 people came out and were going to beat the **** out of him, and some frat guys got in a car and followed him flashing their brights at him while he was riding back, threw beer bottles at him (one nailed him in the head), and then they stopped and got out of the car, pulled him off his bike and started talking shit.
What a civilized way to handle a situation huh? I know my brother has issues, but man, that's one reason why I don't like frats or sororities.
What can I say that might put him on the right track? I told him he should come to my Uni, and he says that they probably have friends here. I told him that if they continue to harrass him, he can do something about it. I tried to convince him that my Uni is much better, but he just said something like "I just want to smoke weed the rest of my life..." I tried telling him that you can't just do that, and then he had to go because someone was calling him.
Do you think he is learning his lesson at all?
I can't just sit there on the phone and keep counseling him like I am. I can't be the ears that listen to my mother bicker and worry; I have a lot of work to do myself! I am trying to be there for my family, though. I always have to step in the situations like this because I have always been kind of a fatherly figure for my little brother.