<p>Q. When my husband died, I was left with our business. I'd been handling the books and I thought I could manage things alone. I soon learned I couldn't. The guys in the shop took advantage of me when they realized I didn't know what was going on. Customers got worried and our sales fell off.</p><p>My older brother had just lost his job and gone through a blistering divorce. One day when we were commiserating, I offered him a job running the shop and handling the marketing. He said yes, that nothing was holding him in North Carolina.</p><p>I couldn't pay him much and he didn't have enough money to buy into the business, but we agreed on a salary that included increases when our profits grew, along with a ten percent share of the business at the end of a year.</p><p>At first, I was really grateful because I couldn't have carried on without him. Things went well for the first eight months. We went from in trouble to stable. Then, just about the time I started getting my sea legs under me, we began rubbing each other the wrong way. My brother has become a class-A jerk, yelling at me when things don't go his way. I just want him to go because it's become intolerable in the office when he and I are both around.</p><p><a href="http://www.adn.com/2014/03/14/3375205/lynne-curry-brother-steps-in-to.html">Keep reading...</a></p>