My mom needs an AA meeting (advice?)
Like numerous times before, my dad came up to me to complain about how "mom's getting bigger from all that beer, that bag wasn't full of beer cans just yesterday and now look at it, she can't even hardly walk--look at her, you should really talk to her about this". Well, gee, dad, I don't see YOU trying to talk to her, either. And no, snide comments about all those beer cans and about her weight do not count. I repeat, DO NOT.
I'm not the most... well, I was going to say 'verbose', but I honestly can't even remember what that means. So maybe not that. But I'm not good at verbally expressing my feelings. Yeah, that. And I have tried to tell my mom that, "your drinking is becoming a problem, and it truly bothers me" but it doesn't seem to be getting through to her. At all. At one point I was debating on threatening suicide to see if, shit, maybe THAT will make her open her eyes, but... I'm not good at that kind-of follow-through-ness, either. That, and it's... drastic, especially after the whole 'classroom-suicide-joke' not too long ago. Suicide is normally a touchy subject.
But I... I honestly don't know what to do. I really fucking hate that I'm so indecisive about this, because something needs to have been done about a year+ ago. I've been working to get both of my parents to stop smoking and drinking for ages, but my methods aren't very good, and I can't bring myself to do the direct approach. I'm sure if I plucked up the courage somehow I could pull it off, but right now it's... not going to happen.
I seriously have no idea to go about this.