im glad he survived through it with drinking too

yep

a lot dont

I lost a cousin to suicide over opiods

i blame it on california

yeah, the only problem is is that he's almost 70 now, and is secretly drinking again when my mom has to travel for work

i dont want to tell her, it'd crush her. they live up in CO and i just feel like she doesn't need it

my mom's carried the family my whole life

she lived her whole life in socal, i suspect she started popping pills to dull the reality of this place being such a shithole. she killed herself when she'd taken all the equity out of her house to buy pills in mexico

yeah man. i lost 6 people who i knew for a long time IRL, but drifted away from, last year to opioids/other stuff too maybe

can you tell your dad to get his shit together again?

im going to try next time i see him

he's 70, that's gonna take a toll

tell him you want him around to see his grandkids

he came to visit me a month or two ago and tried to order me a beer at dinner but i was like dad no, its cool, i dont really drink

yeah

he's only got one that he hardly gets to see

well, tell him you're working on getting him more and you'd like him to be around for that

i never knew either of my grandfathers, they both passed before i was born

my brother is too fat and twisted, and fucked from being a haaardcore alcoholic for years, and i think is drinking again himself, i think he might be a closet fag honestly

yeah

i will

my parents were both the youngest of 4 and 5, so they were old-ish

but still

we get along well until polticsof anything comes up

it'd suck to lose him to substance instead of age

he should have a fox news sleeve tatted on his arm lol

yeah.

lol

boomers gonna boom

his starting to get old man acting

yeah he booms hard

he made me get out of his truck in CO once in winter on a mountain pass and drove off because we were arguing about Putin and he snapped

he hates putin with a passion, i was like 'You're half Russian you fucking maniac, (insert long rant)" we've fought about putin for years

and israel

lol

he did come back and get me after like 15 minutes

lol

well he's 70, you're probably not going to change his mind

nah

stay away from the touchy topics