Originally Posted by
rozied 
My parents thankfully still are pretty healthy & have all their faculties but of course they are worn down more quickly,
I am finding it very hard to overlook all of this cuz they r killing my son.
I'm so sorry your going through all this...
I just wanted to say one thing that caught my eye.
Your son is killing himself not your parents.
We are responsible for our own actions, your son
has sucked them into his addiction, but even they are grown
adults and are choosing to be sucked into his addiction.
You can only do what you are doing and that is educating them
on addiction. After that their choices are their own.
Owning someone else's choices keeps us sick.
I know it is hard to understand your Dad's choices, and it
hurts... One thing I try and do with my parents esp.
when they make me mad is understand them first.
Understand and then be understood.
I used to get soo mad at my rents and their drinking and
a few other things they did,
it just affected me in such a bad way.
Now I just try and understand it first, and it seems to work
better...
Okay off my soap box.