re: Got in a fight with my old man

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Said some mean things and now I’m feeling pretty bad about it. He also said mean things. Make me feel better OT.

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If it makes you feel better the last time I ever talked to my dad was the day of my mother’s funeral. He had some problems with alcohol in his latter years and I called him when I was driving home that night to tell him what I thought he needed to do to straighten himself out and he balked at it. We argued and I hung up. Never called or saw him again. He died less than two months later.

I wish our relationship had ended better because we were very close for most of my life, but he pushed me away with how he treated my mother and me when alcohol got control of him.

In the last few years when my dad was consumed with alcohol and my mom had terminal cancer their life together was pure hell.

I’m their only child, so I have all their stuff that I wanted to keep. I looked through their wedding album not too long ago. Sad to see them then (only 19 and 21 and very happy) and know how miserably bad things would end when they were only 62 and 64.