A real-life soap opera

This is the kind of soap-opera shit I thought didn't happen in real life.  I do not have all the details, because when my parents asked me if I wanted to hear about the soap opera of B and C, I rolled my eyes and said no (not knowing that this was like actual SOAP OPERA soap opera, and not just ordinary drama and bitching).  By the time I learned enough of the details to realize my mistake, most of it was over and my parents were on to other matters, so there are probably juicy bits i do not know.

For this story to make sense, you have to know that my parents have a habit of collecting people who are going through hard times and need support to get back on their feet.  My parents invite them to live with them, and then just sort of ... adopt them.  This is something they do even when they really can't spare the time/money/whatever.  They take care of people.  And once you're one of the people they take care of, you have to do something really drastic to stop being someone they take care of whenever you even hint you might possibly need help.

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My parents have now decided that since the basement apartment is open, it would be ever so much easier for everyone if my aunt (who lives alone and has significant health problems and whom my parents spend lots of time doing housework/yardwork/maintenance for) sold her house and moved in with my parents so they could take care of her ...