re: Anyone else not on speaking terms with a parent?

I haven’t talked to my dad in eight years. I still talk to my mom (they’re still married).

He’s an alcoholic (although my mom tells me he quit drinking a couple years ago). He was always volatile and is pretty mean to everyone he supposedly cares about.

No hard feelings but his behavior over the last decade has indicated that he doesn’t want a relationship with me and I don’t have the energy for a one-sided relationship.