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[QUOTE="CountryEscape, post: 136618, member: 3087"]
I agree with JW.  I was married into a family of grudge holders.  I will never understand that mentality.  Not that your family is holding grudges, Colleen, and I have a friend that's dad did the same thing to her mom, beat her, drank too much, beat the kids.  BUT, we are taught to turn the other cheek.  It's not going to be easy, but to find peace in his last days for both him and your siblings would be a great thing, even if he "weirded out" on them when they came to visit.  At this point in all of your lives, you're all adults, you can control your own lives, and you are.  Your dad can no longer control you so it's a matter of not letting him say mean things to you and you get upset about them.  Simply tell him to stop if he says anything mean, and maybe just getting his attention will be enough.  If not, walk away.  Done deal.  But, everyone should try.  To never try is to hold a grudge, and that only makes you old before your time.  :-)  That's why I'm so young.  LOL  I may get mad, but I get over it almost as fast as I got mad.
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