A month ago I got the chance to spend time with my brothers for the first time in years. They both make a great hang and I love them buuuuut.... they are both absentee deadbeat dads who put their kid's mothers through hell.

I feel some sort of duty to stay in their lives, if only so that they have a platonic relatoinship with a woman and maybe start seeing women as people. Plus I know what they had to go through growing up, and they're family blah blah blah. This is probably partly some version of my former 'we can fix him' attitude. Do you ladies with dusty brothers try to maintain a relationship with them? What's that like? Do you feel any responisbilty to get them to see the error of their ways?