Dealing and Coping with a Wayward Sister

For as long as I can remember my sister, being seven years older than me,has always been the most rebellious out of all three of us.She never seemed to want to follow rules,not at home nor in society.I always kept in my mind how pretty she was and how she always seemed to have the "it" factor,she was a high school cheerleader,straight A student and number 3 in all state gymnastics. So,what went wrong?I would have to say that the peer pressure finally got to her as she gave in to it,she started smoking cigarettes at around 14 and smoking pot around 16 as well as drinking which would lead to her spiraling life.She would run away on a montly or sometimes weekly basis and my mom would always go out and find her and bring her back home again.We did not have a bad family home,we actually had a great home with lots of love,attention and understanding we were what others might call a "tight knit" family.We all made mistakes and my brother and I learned from them while my sister only continued to make them.The drinking,drugs and lies would become so much of her life that she knew no other way.

Dropping out of high school her senior year she got married at 18 and moved to Maine.We all thought this was a new fresh start for her.She wrote letters back home apologizing for the things that she had done,of course being family we forgave her and she called as often as she could.Sadly,little did we know she was still smoking pot and drinking which finally lead to her first divorce and the meeting of her soon to be second husband who introduced her to cocaine.At 21 she came back home now married again and with a 6 month old baby.I was 14 at the time and by now had already seen years of the turmoil and pain that she had put my family through and it was hard to accept what she was doing.When my friends would ask about my sister I never really knew what to say.