My (23F) dad (47M) is an ice addict and I don’t know how to deal with it anymore
My dad has been a drug addict my whole life. He has always come in and out of my life through the years. He mostly kept his distance because he didn’t want to hurt me. I have an amazing grandmother who has always tried to compensate for his absence as well as always picking up his pieces. I have had a lot of horrible experiences from his history of drug abuse, throughout my teenage years from when I was 11 I would get phone calls from random people saying that if I didn’t give them money that he owed they would hurt him. Then the next day or next week he would be found beat up in a gutter somewhere. This was so traumatising as I would always think it was my fault, my mum and step dad would change my number (I only had a phone for when I would go to school or to contact my family). Sometimes he would come to my grandparents on ice and try to hurt them. He never hurt me. When I was 17 in my high school exams (HSC in Australia) I had turned up at my grandparents one afternoon to find o...