Is it time to walk away from my alcoholic dad?

DEAR DEIDRE: I WORRY astir my alcoholic dada but he’s making my beingness a misery, and I deliberation it mightiness beryllium clip to locomotion away. 

He’s had respective stints successful rehab but helium inactive isn’t sober. I can’t header with his lies anymore. 

I’m a 19-year-old girl. My dada is 56.

He started drinking heavy aft my mum near him, erstwhile I was 14.

Since then, his beingness has fallen apart, he’s mislaid his occupation and astir of his friends. 

I’m the lone 1 near who checks up connected him.

He keeps promising to stop. It ne'er happens. 

I emotion him, but I’m sick of trying to help.

Is it incorrect to springiness up connected him? I privation to unrecorded my ain beingness now. 

DEIDRE SAYS: You can’t assistance idiosyncratic who doesn’t privation to beryllium helped. He needs to realise helium has a problem. 

Contact Al-Anon (al-anonuk.org.uk), who enactment radical who person loved ones with an addition. 

You tin besides get successful interaction with Nacoa, the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (nacoa.org.uk, tel: 0800 358 3456).

My enactment battalion Dealing With A Problem Drinker, whitethorn help.