How you handled yourself in your family ?
CONTEXT - ( 21 years old, living with family, ruined my college due to survival mode, and now it will take me a few years to stabilise everything, but I am positive I can do it . )
My dads an alcoholic but 7 days a week more like 4 days a week , because he goes in with alcohol for a few days coming home late or not coming home at all , and then when his body literally cannot handle more he stops for 3 - 10 days . and everytime that happens meaning he stops he does it by reassuring us that its over and those 3 days feel good beacuse hes home and i do not trust him much but everytime i do believe a little of his lies .
last night he came home i do not know when because my room is upstairs . i woke up at 1 am saw his car outside and from downstairs heard my mom crying , did not go downstairs and woke up again at 6 am and heard them yelling and abusing each other , we moved houses a year ago and then i felt it would be nice to be a normal family idk even know what our neighbours think of us , they never confronted us so they never heard much i guess .
i told my mom at 6 am go to sleep , and i will handle him when he wakes up she asked how , i told her beat my father , break a few bones and then he heals back up and break a few more bones . i have never hit my father , he has been an alcoholic for all my life , she shut me down and sent me back to my room angrily , my father did knew i was down as he was yalling from the room .
i thought beating my father would distance myself from the love i have for that man and finally set me free after giving me a lot of guilt .
how do you maintain your sanity at home , i mean distance yourself emotionally from your parent so that it does not affect you in life , i know not entirely possible but would appreciate tips .