Dear Eric: Over the last 10 years, the father of my grandchildren has been a severe alcoholic. Two years ago, my daughter left him.

After he had been living on the streets, my daughter asked if he could stay in my basement so that he would get sufficient rest and be able to have the children with him; she knows it’s important for the children to be with their dad. I agreed.

This young man has been unemployed for at least two years. He has been going to AA, and although he has relapsed several times, he has not been violently drunk the way he was in the past. He seems to be working the program.

I lent him $300 in July to pay part of an open court case he has. At that time, I wrote out that he had to have a job and pay me back the $300 by a certain date, or he would no longer be living at

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