SoberQuestioning: 'I hate that I have to be complicit in his lies to maintain any semblance of peace or pleasant interaction'
I just hosted my alcoholic dad and his wife at my home. I love my dad and we’ve always been very close, but there’s always been trauma in our relationship due to his erratic behavior while drinking and, more recently, his insistence that he’s sober while he continues to spend 90 percent of his time drunk.
I hate him when he’s drunk. I hate even more that my only option seems to be to play along or risk an awful blowup and be blamed for his depression and dissatisfaction in life. A sober friend helped clarify the situation: Which was more important, feeling as though I satisfied the traditional obligations of family or keeping my own sobriety safe? I had to figure out what I could handle, not what would look noble to others. The calculus was easy: If I let her troubles intrude too much into the delicate environment of my early recovery, well, we’d both be lost.
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