dad/drinking: I think a part of me has always expected mine and my fathers drinking to bring us together. You know, when later on when I no longer live with my parents and I come home for like Christmas or something my father and I will be able to sit down together and have a drink. Have small conversation, I dunno.

But it has appeared to me that that will never happen. My father will never accept my drinking like him, and especially not with him. The fact that I have admitted to having a problem scares him completely. He knows the damage alcohol has done in his life, and does not want me to repeat his mistakes.