A couple of weeks ago my husband and I took in a roomate very suddenly. She's a young girl who we became friends with because she dated my younger brother for almost 2 years. Now, I know that it might seem strange, but, she is 20 and was living with her parents who treat her very poorly and she had recently had a pretty bad injury to her knee which was preventing her from seeking employment. It all kind of came to a head when her dad tried to push her down the stairs and told her to get out or go live on the street. So, we took her in.
She's absolutely no trouble at all. In fact, she's not really here that much because she is doing better from her knee injury and able to walk again, so she's been out looking for work and doing interviews. What's eating away at me is this: my siblings. I was honest with my brother and told him myself that she had moved in with us. He doesn't come over to our house and visit at all despite living only a mile from us. I understand that it might be awkward for him to think of his ex living with his older sister, but I never imagined that he would take it the way that he has. Apparently he and the rest of my siblings are angry that I am letting 'her' live here and that I am a horrible person for being so 'disloyal'. How am I being disloyal? She isn't doing anything to him, and she's not a mean person. She is young and making some young people mistakes, but, she's actually doing better than a lot of people her age I have seen. I feel so strongly that I should share the large rental home that God has blessed us with, and we were not using the room she moved into. My siblings do not care to come visit, and so I honestly thought it would not affect them much at all.
I just want to do what is right.
Am being persecuted, or just stupid?