My dad is an alcoholic and I hate him for it. He is never home...for his work he travels. I see him maybe 5 whole days out of the month. When he is home, hes never actually HOME. He is always out with his buddies drinking. When he finally does come home, all my parents do is fight. I hate it. I hate living in my house. I love my dad so much. When hes not drinking, hes the best dad in the whole world. I just hardly ever get to see that side of him. Take the past couple weeks for example. He was gone for 6 days working, came home for one night of which he spent drunk, left the next day for 7 days, came home for one day but left again the next for 4 more days. He just got home last night so you would think that maybe he would like to see his family, but no. I came home from school hoping I could finally see him...wrong. He had to go pick up some paperwork at work. That took him 5 hours until he came stumbling through the front door. Now my parents are fighting while I curl up in a ball with my hands over my ears crying in my bedroom. Arghh....I just hate this so much.I have absolutely no outlet. No one knows anything about my problems. My dad is only a small part of it. I just wish that there were someone that I could talk to...someone who wouldn't judge me. I have tons of friends, dont get me wrong, but none that I could ever open up to. I'm the girl in school who gets straigh As, involved in every club and sport imaginable, and has the perfect life. If people only knew...
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Mu alcoholic dad
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im sorry. this is one of the areas i cannot help anyone. the one gaping blindspot (or one of many to be more precise) is parents. nothing could ever describe the loathing i feel towards my own, and as such, it has tainted my opinion of parents everywhere. no idea why im even posting this non post other than the fact that i want to state this, again and again and again and again. i hate my parents. EDIT: gods, how pathetic is that last line
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I know how both of you feel.maybe we should form a club?
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Being on the road is tough and boring. Whenever I have to travel on business, you usually end up going to some bar becuse there in nothing to do except watch TV. Maybe that is why your dad has become an alcoholic. The travel and drinking is obviously causing stress in your family. Maybe you should write a long letter to your father telling him that you love him, miss him and are very hurt because of the fighting and are concerned about his health. Slip it into his breifcase, bag, suitcase or whatever. Somewhere, where he will find it later. Maybe it will help him realize how it is affecting him and your family and will prompt him to make some changes. Good Luck.
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maybe we should pool our resources and have someone remove parents from the equation...No? well then i doubt we would be able to form much of a support group thensorry, if this appears at all hostile, it wasnt meant to be, but its hard not to come across as that when you arent thinking warm fuzzy thoughts
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I'm a parent, but I perfectly understand that some parents are simply unfit, and should never have had children. I've seen too many people who have been damaged by bad parents. My parents used to say that when I was a parent myself I'd understand why they did some things - now that I am, although I understand some things better, I also understand that they weren't very good parents.
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Don't get me wrong, I love both of my parents very very much and I would never wish anything bad upon them. Everyone has problems and everyone makes mistakes. My dad's is alcoholism. I don't know what I would do without my dad or my mom. They are the two most important people in my life...I just can't always deal with it all the time.