This is a rant. If you don't like rants about "children" opposing the ways of "adults" then don't read.

Essentially, my step father puts all his laundry on one big heap in the corner of the room. He doesn't do laundry, he doesn't go through his clothes. No, he throws it in the corner like this. This is about three months accumulation of dirty clothes. This pile was like this when I got home from Pennsylvania (smaller, but it grew to this over the span of 3.5 months). So when it gets this bad he asks my mom to do it.

Now I'll catch you up. My mom tore two tendons in her ankle a week and a half ago. She can hardly walk. She also has arthritis in her knees, back, and possibly hip. She cannot kneel down. But my step father is so incapable of doing LAUNDRY that she has to do it.

So I confronted him today. I asked him why he couldn't do it. His excuse was "I don't know how to sort clothes!" So I told him that now-a-days you don't have to sort colours. You really only have to sort work clothes from regular clothes. Especially because he doesn't have delicates. I told him this and in response he said; "well if it's so easy YOU do it!" Like, no. That's not the point I'm trying to make. You said you don't know how to do it, so I told you it's really easy. Do your own God damn laundry instead of making my disabled mother do it! He has no other resrvations today, so he can learn how to do his own laundry. It's not hard. I even did my laundry today and got it all together so that he had room to do his, but he still needs his "mommy" (wife) to do his laundry.

I guess what my whole problem is is that I know she deserves better, but I just can't tell her this. I know it's not my place to criticize a marriage, but to see my mother be put through this shit, it's so painful and it makes me hate this man. Am I wrong? Am I being over critical and protective of my mom? Do I need to drop it?