my65roses4me
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Along with a few other substance abuse issues my dad did in front of me growing up, he also smoked like a chimney too.
I know how you feel and how fursterating it can be.
He always wondered why I locked myself in my room 95% of the time. He used to get mad and get very angry with me that I never wanted to spend time with him and my mom in the living room. He just chalked it up to me being a bratty teenager. It was just a selfish way of living and nothing I did or said changed anything it only made it worse.
I did not have relatives that I could have moved in with.
Instead I waited out until I was 18. About four months after I turned 18 I moved out into my own apartment.
I later married and bought our own house. My dad came over one holiday and tried to smoke in my house. I just let into him and my mom have it!!! I told him that my house is not to be smoked in and he wasn't aloud to do any of his other bad habits that he so blatenly (sp) tried to do in my guest bedroom.
Since then I have had other outs with him and no longer talk to him. But shortly before I stopped talking to him he respected my rules because he had to.
My whole point about this is that unless you call CPS and get them involved, or move in with relatives, your only option is to wait until you are old enough to move out because they dont sound like they are willing to change, just like my dad never did.
Good luck to you! Do all you can for your own health!!!! I admire your maturity!!!
<u><b>No matter how you look at this issue, its child abuse!!!!!</b></u>
I know how you feel and how fursterating it can be.
He always wondered why I locked myself in my room 95% of the time. He used to get mad and get very angry with me that I never wanted to spend time with him and my mom in the living room. He just chalked it up to me being a bratty teenager. It was just a selfish way of living and nothing I did or said changed anything it only made it worse.
I did not have relatives that I could have moved in with.
Instead I waited out until I was 18. About four months after I turned 18 I moved out into my own apartment.
I later married and bought our own house. My dad came over one holiday and tried to smoke in my house. I just let into him and my mom have it!!! I told him that my house is not to be smoked in and he wasn't aloud to do any of his other bad habits that he so blatenly (sp) tried to do in my guest bedroom.
Since then I have had other outs with him and no longer talk to him. But shortly before I stopped talking to him he respected my rules because he had to.
My whole point about this is that unless you call CPS and get them involved, or move in with relatives, your only option is to wait until you are old enough to move out because they dont sound like they are willing to change, just like my dad never did.
Good luck to you! Do all you can for your own health!!!! I admire your maturity!!!
<u><b>No matter how you look at this issue, its child abuse!!!!!</b></u>