A four year old child does not know a big or rich house from a small poor house. However,what good is your wife,she is neither a good house keeper nor a good mom. You cook meals and your mom takes care of the child,what does the wife do.
Make her get a job to help with family economics. Stop providing for her alcohol and drugs.
You wanted to know what kind of person you are. But make a list of everything you do for your daughter and your mother who is ill. You put them above yourself.
You make sure the bills are paid, a roof is over their head, and make sure they eat what you can give them even if you have to go hungry yourself. What kind of person are you? You are a man.
They would be lost with out you, and if you leave your daughters life what is out there for her. You see how her mother is, you see the people around you are, you see people selling their bodies for their next fix. If you do anything to leave your daughters life she will not see what a real man is like.
She will be lost and will find herself becoming one of them. Do not do that to her. The last thing I want to say is I know it is hard.
I have gone through the same thing, never making enough and had a ex who when she did work spent her money on herself as I tried to pay for everything. For 6 months I was living on peanut-butter and bread, it was hard. But I did what had to.
Those you see selling drugs and have all the things they ever wanted do not worry about them. When they are busted (and it might be years from now) they will lose everything. Their family will be left in the streets because the feds will claim it all.
The easy path only gives short term gain but the long path is hard and trying but in the end you will find yourself a stronger better person for it and so will your daughter. Sometimes you got to stand in the storm, in the lightning when it pours. Someone strong enough to lean on, show them what a backbones for.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.