(February 18, 2016 at 10:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Hopefully she can see the benefit of abandoning alcohol, no matter what your beliefs are. Your beliefs don't make her drink; she makes herself drink.
I can understand wanting to be considerate of her feelings, but you're assuming responsibility which isn't yours in assuming that you've caused, or extended, her drinking.
Oh no, I don't think I caused it. She's been drinking heavily LONG before she knew I was an atheist.
I'm just assuming some responsibility for helping her get better. I can't make her, but I can try and motivate her. I'm her daughter and she's been a good mother, and by default I have some responsibility to try, just as she would feel to help me if I needed it. To just say "she chose, her own fault" is too callous for me. I am not so dismissive of even criminals, let alone my own mother.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead