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Thanks Sand, we have looked into family therapy etc and even did our own "intervention" in June, which was very tough as it involved the whole family right down to my 11 year old brother. I have gone to therapy myself and am able to detach from my Dad's drinking, my mother refuses therapy or Al Anon etc and thinks that once he stops drinking that it will be fine, but spends all her time watching him then, which means that she drives us all CRAZY with her running commentary.

We thought that we had made great progress with her in getting her to come to meet the addiction counsellor but it really meant that she felt that she was right in everything she had done as she didn't follow up. It's difficult in that he tends to flare up against whoever is in his vicinity when he is drinking which usually means my Mum, my 14 year old sister and 11 year old brother, the rest of us are away from home now.

I have my own husband now (since September) and we have one another, our little family to think of too, and I am determined to put us first

Thanks for your concern, you'll see from a search that I have posted a lot about this before and that you're not butting in at all.

Anyway, thanks for your concern

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S.

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