Sunday, November 13, 2011

What would be the right thing to do in this situation?

My father's a gambler. A bad one. He's been at it for years now. I just turned 18 but am still beholden to him for a lot of things - at least for the next several months. After he's been to the casino, I get on his case and get mad at him, because I'm trying to break through to him and let it known that I'm not one of the enablers (the rest of my family are). But he's now decided that unless I go along with what he does and pretty much enable him, I'll have no phone, no internet, no car, and he'll pretty much leave me with the clothes on my back. So do I take a stand because morally I feel compelled to and lose everything for what will probably be at least a year till I can make it on my own or do I turn a blind eye and live with all those things? Also, I recently overcame a very strong addiction to two different narcotics, so I understand addiction and the dangers of enabling.

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