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Old 06-12-2006, 01:13 PM
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Hi!! My parents are divorced since 15years because my dad was a very bad drunkard . My brother and I we tried our best to make him stop, we talked to him...we told him that we were fed up to see him like that everytime we come and see him! That's awful...but he never stopped!! What can i do now after 15years to put an end to this story???Help please...
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Old 06-13-2006, 05:34 AM
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There is not much that you can do for the time being I think. If he does not want to change and that you have tried averything except putting a knife under his throat, then i think you let things go on the way they are.

Some people don't learn from there mistakes, nor listen to the other. Your father being an adult, you should let him... he is responsible of his choices...
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Old 06-13-2006, 11:10 AM
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After 15 years i think that you won't be able to make him stop drinking. The only way to make him stop, its him, he has to decide himself if he wants to stop or not...
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Old 06-13-2006, 12:01 PM
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If you have tried your best to make him stop and he never did anything so I think that he has made his choice since very long time!! You don't have to feel guilty about that!!He is an adult and he choose to be a drunkard for all his life...so let him and just take care about your own life. But this is very sad.
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Old 06-14-2006, 02:48 AM
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try seeking professional help on this matter... just don't go to the reality tv show that makes people stop drinking...
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Old 06-22-2006, 01:02 PM
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if i were in you rplace, i would leave him alone and live for my mother and brother or sister,,that doesn't mean when he is your dad he has the right to make your life a hell....or put him in a rehabilitation centre
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Old 06-23-2006, 05:50 AM
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Its very hard to see one of your parents in this conditions. If he had always been a drunkard, its very difficult to make him stop specially if he's drinking since more than 15 years.. I think that nothing can make him stop, not even his children.. The only way would be that he realized by himself that its the moment to stop.
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Old 06-26-2006, 05:28 AM
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Try putting him in a rehab. He may still go back but at least you have tried forcing him into the first step of quitting.
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i think it would be difficult to leave even after putting in rehab as he has been drinking for so long.
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Old 07-31-2006, 10:34 AM
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Hi!! My parents are divorced since 15years because my dad was a very bad drunkard . My brother and I we tried our best to make him stop, we talked to him...we told him that we were fed up to see him like that everytime we come and see him! That's awful...but he never stopped!! What can i do now after 15years to put an end to this story???Help please...
Don't take me wrong, but don't waste your time with him cause if he didn't change for the past 15 years, do you still expect him to change now!
You will get depressed by his reaction if you continue to talk to him and tell him to stop drinking.
Better go away from him or get him admitted by force in a rehabilitation center.
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