just be glad dude, you got a role model family compared to mine.... my family.. is just well.... fucked.

i would have killed to just grow up with a mom who has a steady relationship with someone with those minimal problems.... your other house, the one you don't want to go back to, is starting to sound a little more like my family, but even if it were just those problems, still woulda been a better household then i grew up in.

my dad is a psychotic crackhead that thinks he's having a sexual relationship wtih god and jesus.
my uncle has tried to kill me, literally.. and he just lives out back, he's completely un-predictable, and i feel generally unsafe with him anywhere near me, my wife or my child, but there's not a whole lot that can be done about the situation, he hasn't messed with us in a good long while anyways.
my grandpa is a very bad alcoholic... like those people you see and just pitty.
my mom is pretty much the same way, but with alot of mental problems, and now a dead son she just loves to tell everyone over and over to show them how bad her life is (she's a compulsive liar and over dramatizes everything by like ten fold literally)

that's just a peek into my family....