I’m sorry this is so long….

First the story: My father had an argument with my brother and I over the weekend. I’d been getting a bath and could hear my brother getting called stupid and a dumb@$$ and retarded. He finally couldn’t take it any longer and slugged my father in the arm, so my father threw a huge fit and threw a chair at him and threatened him that he would kill him and my brother was threatening to call child services and…. you can pretty well imagine how the rest went on. All this was over his addiction to an online poker game of my father’s. He’s never shown anybody here any respect or love and he’s bitter and childish and throws tantrums over everything. I came out from the shower and spun around his chair from the computer and called him out on threatening his son and throwing furniture and on all his verbal abuse. This isn’t anything new… but I couldn’t take it any longer from him. I usually try to not get involved as he doesn’t listen. Threats and throwing furniture I will not tolerate. I’m his daughter; I’m twenty. Don’t tell me it isn’t in my place to argue back with him or anything like that. He has never been like a father to me; he spent my childhood drunk out in bars whenever he could be and the only reason my parents got married is because I was born. He was very abusive and is now very verbally abusive.

This morning he told my mother he wanted to move out…. on my brother’s birthday no less. He wants to take the truck and move out. I want to know if this is just him blowing hot air or if he really will. Honestly, I pretty much hope he is true to this. We suffer him and he doesn’t contribute much… not in affection or support…. not financially (mom works 2 jobs and pays most of the bills and for groceries and for anything else)… not with house chores (all he does around the house is mow the lawn which my brother or I are more than happy to do)… so is this going to come to pass? Will he really move out or is he just being all talk here?
his DOB is may 9, 1950
Yes… it’s definitely more for convenience. He can’t handle any responsibility. He can’t figure out how to use the microwave and yells for me to make him food, as it is "woman’s work." I’m a Gemini and I usually do like Tauruses, but I can’t stand the man. He has stopped drinking… his medicines don’t allow him to drink with them and he got into a fight at a bar that landed him in the hospital nearly dead.

Just tell your story, you probably have something to tell…

For me, who have worked in furniture making: sometimes I get to send the furniture, I love to see customer homes, anyway I remember the factory well having to work late. programming: the way I can’t stop making program, it’s addiction, though to many sitting. And In restaurant kitchen: it’s just the best atmosphere I ever have and someday I look forward to become chef again, as currently I’m in law degree.

I guess I love being in the kitchen, though I kinda have doubt with the income.

10 pts. for detailed or good answer