General Discussion

He does need to distance emotionally for self protection and as part of that work on understanding.

For him to just abandon his father and even cut him out of his life would be wrong, though, and potentially very harmful to himself as well as his father and others. So no to just walking away from both his own responsibilities and from what's supposed to be the family support everyone should have.

It's not true that QNuts can't become rational again, and most QVictims really want and need their parents and children back. What's more worth waiting, hoping, working for?

In any case, this son and father have many years ahead to fix this. Hopefully speaking out is a first step of many that will eventually bring these two together again.