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[quote=Anonymous]OP, another vote here for you to get to Al-Anon. If you are not familiar with it - it's not the same as AA, which is for alcoholics themselves; Al-Anon is for the families of alcoholics and if you get to meetings you can learn how other adult children of alcoholics cope, and can get some ideas about what you might or might not want to do next. It is VERY telling that your mother sees drinking as your dad's "problem to solve" and nothing to do with her -- she is an enabler as well as being simply blind. All the more reason for you to go to Al-Anon where you will find others whose family stories will sounds a lot like your own.

You are right to be concerned here, and right that having everyone drinking around your dad over the holiday was an extremely poor choice at this point in time.

Even if you are, in the end, never able to get your dad and mom to recognize and admit to these issues, you, yourself, need to learn how to cope with them, which is why Al-Anon may be very useful. There are meetings all the time, all over the place -- look online.[/quote]

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