new, and needing to know something
My brother was addicted to heroin for 11 years, before eventually committing suicide in august of 2009. We miss him terribly, but that is not why I'm here.
You see, when my brother lived with us and was horribly addicted everything was stolen, everything was always a fight to make sure he stayed alive, and always a fight to see through his lies.
he's gone now.
my father is the concern.
he is an alcoholic, but i'm having problems validating how i feel about it.
because his addiction and disease is not so progressed that it's to the point of the stealing or seeing through the lies.
it's just to the point that his wife is about to kick him out and his daughter (me) says she can't stand him.. and he promises he'll change... but yet he still drinks. and when he drinks, he drinks to the point of barley standing up every single night.
he also drives drunk, every single night.
he gets angered very easily at only me when he's sober.
he's also a diabetic, so we all know he's playing with fire. i just don't know what to do. i'm having such a hard time accepting the fact he's an addict when i've seen an addict so truly horrible that we had to disconnect the phones from the walls and my mother would sleep with her purse.
i lost one, and i'm not ready to lose another...