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You left home at 18 years old and stayed out until now at almost 50. The guilt-tripping did not start yesterday. You disregarded both of your parents' toxic, narcissistic nonsense for decades and made a life for yourself. They are not the reason why you no longer have that life today.
I understand where you're coming from because my situation was very similar. I too left an abusive home at 18. There was plenty of guilt-tripping and games and drama from my mother. It got to the point where I didn't speak to her for six years. She wasn't even at my wedding. When I got divorced a few years back I moved back in with her. She was needing some help. I was needing a place to go and she had made some genuine amends for the past.
She resumed old behaviors and I had to cut that down fast. I do for her but it is always on my terms, not hers. I'm getting remarried to my ex and buying a new place. She is not coming with me.
Boundaries. They are very important. You had them with your parents from the time you left home at 18. You're in another state. You don't have to answer every time or anytime your father calls. You can have him made a ward of the state and not have to deal with anything from him or concerning him. There are choices.
For your own sake stop making your father the scapegoat for what your life is now. It will not help you get your life back. Mental health care and therapy will.
Death row? Seriously? Why are you on this forum at all if you think mental disorders aren’t real, that all meds will kiill people, and people in facilities are just on a nicer version of death row?
Set your boundaries and move on with your life, he has lived his life without regard to you (narcissistic behavior pattern) and now it is time for you to do the same. He will not change, he will not get better, there is no happy future with him, only more memories being created of a non-respected past.
Change your future by taking your life back.
Good Luck!
You are probably 100% correct.
But if this is true, why persist in regarding his ongoing insinuations as though they were fact?
YOUR expectations of HIM (and his input and opinions) and yourself, at least seem far more toxic to you than anything g he can dish out.
You moved out at 18, a perfectly typical, reasonable event, and have continued to believe that because of that he “MADE” you feel guilty? NO ONE can make you feel guilty UNLESS you are willing to be an ACTIVE LISTENER TO WHAT IS SAID.
And YOU control that BY WALKING AWAY, IGNORING YOUR PHONE, REFUSING TO RESPOND- choosing whatever path of avoidance is easiest FOR YOU, then TAKING IT.
If his DOCTORS had sought to place him in a nursing home, THE DOCTORS were most likely on the right track. And “……throw him into a nursing home….” no longer means “Up the hill to the poor house”, so it was your thinking that prevented what might (or might not) have been a smooth transition to an appropriate care setting.
MANY of us have lived your life, and through doing so have learned that you must EXTRICATE YOURSELF from the life that has surrounded you.
Therapy can be VERY HELPFUL, DISTANCE can too, but you CANNOT continue to expect to reap the rewards of YOUR EFFORTS, because he hasn’t, cannot, and WILL NOT become your “good parent”. YOU are the person who can and SHOULD be a good parent to you FIRST.
You will find MANY CHEERLEADERS HERE. Some of us have learned how to cope, some of are works in progress, some of us may have given up.
YOU CAN GET THROUGH THIS, and it IS well worth the effort.
It doesn't matter if your dad doesnt have anyone else. He is an adult and that is his problem not yours. Yet you have made it your problem and lost your job because of that.
The fact that he doesn't care that you lost your job to help him just shows that he has not changed and doesnt care about you.
What he did to you as a child when you were in your most vulnerable and helpless state of being shows his character as a human being.
How you cope is by stopping all contact and living your life.
People like your dad are parasites that feed off decent and compassionate people. He will literally suck the life out of you until there is nothing left and then move on without a care in the world.
Now the question is are you able to take my advice and stop helping him and save yourself?