It's a hard one. I personally wouldn't, but it's only because my dad is the type of person who can't admit to even himself that there's a problem, and if there is then he isn't to blame -- it's always someone else's fault. The last emails that happened between us is likely the last contact we'll ever have. Writing the story and sharing it with the people closest to me has done more for me than anything else ever did, though. Just being open with myself and the people I care about is already making all the difference in the world.

I guess it's all a matter of how you think the recipients will react.

I'm sure that my father would use it as fodder, rant and rave and tell lies to everyone else in the family, and wait for me to hear it all from someone else and smile at the "lesson" he taught me. Because that's how he does it.