My family has always been an extremely destructive part of my life. My mother was abusive throughout my childhood, and increasingly worse through my teenage years, and is better now that I am older but still manipulative if you don't play along to her game.
My father has never defended me, which I have always had a major problem with. How could he stand by as my mother did these things to me?
As a child, my mother was in charge of my sister and my father was in charge of me. My father worked long hours, and my mother was a stay at home mom. I was labeled, “my fathers child”. When my father became an alcoholic, I believe I was left feeling extremely abandoned. My father went on frequent business trips, and I was heartbroken each and every time he would leave. I would cry, sob, and scream if he didn’t give me notice of his departure, and cry each and every night he was gone. Since he had business trips very frequently, this was extremely difficult for me. I am now very co-dependent on my father. I talk to him 2-3 times a day and cry at the thought of losing him. If I watch Lion King, I cry at the scene where the father dies - ridiculous I know. I am ridiculously dependent on my father.
As for the rest of my family - they thrive off of drama, they were not supportive at all when I decided to come out in the open about my rape. Most of them are alcoholics, destructive, etc.

I am thinking about cutting them out of my life completely. I just don't know how I would do it. I have issues with loss, and don't know how I would possibly do it successfully, especially my father.