Let's see if I have the whole thing straight.

You are mom to 7 children. Your mom drinks on occasion and lived with a boyfriend who beat her up and is verbally abusive, right?

Your mom and you are not particularly close and she is not going to win the grandma of the year contest, am I right?

Furthermore, you just found out that your mom was in the hospital because she tried to kill herself.

Did I get all this correct?

Thanks much.

Melody