To begin, my brother found in July out his wife who he has been married to for 5 years, has been cheating and lied to him for about 5 years. He came to me when he was feeling down and his depression was contagious, so I could sort of feel what he was going through. He later found out that he and his wife are expecting and has pretty much forgiven and gotten back together with her after trying to move on several times. The rest of my family acts like nothing happened but I can't help but resent her and I don't think I will ever really accept her as my sister-in-law again, but with my brother's happiness at stake, I don't cause any problems.
The next issue that arose about a month ago was that my dad found out he was being laid off after working at the corporation for 25 years. My dad is the main bread-winner and it will definitely be tough living on a slim budget. I also found out today that my mom has been laid off from her job, because "they needed to find someone with more experience." Good luck finding an IT expert that will work for $15/hour without benefits. She was laid off a couple years ago and she had a particularly bad time finding this job, so its very emotionally tough for her to deal with it.
Last but not least my grandma is dying and I haven't seen her in a few months. I feel really bad about not seeing her, but from what I've heard she can't remember who any of my family members are and she is in really bad shape. I don't know if I could see her like that.
I'm moving next summer and plan to transfer to a four-year college so I'm hoping my mom and dad find jobs and my grandma finally passes peacefully.