So I got my one year coin today and it feels hollow cause not getting support from family cause they say they happy for me but continue too drink so am going to cut my family out of my life cause they are fake with there support cause they continue to drink!!!…Cause I can’t trust people to help or support me anymore need too find LOVE and move on with my life cause my current life going to kill me!!
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That's tough not getting the support from family. I know how that goes. My family all still drink and refuse Al-Anon or therapy of their own.
I just had to change my expectations. They say they're proud of me, but, yeah, it rings hollow. I'm not going to let it get me down. They have their problems and I have mine. I feel good about working on my issues. If they want to carry theirs around, so be it.
Congratulations on a year! That's really awesome.
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Its tough not feeling heard. Just curious, why do you desire for THEM to stop drinking in order to feel supported?
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I'm proud of you. What an incredible achievement. The only person you need to be true to and not let down is yourself. You're doing fantastic and you'll see that the praise and acceptance you yearn for from family and loved ones will gradually come. Be patient...some people only look at the amount of time you weren't sober then compare it to the amount of time you are sober having no understanding of just how difficult what you did is. I really hope they take the time to educate themselves and learn about addiction, the physiological and emotional cause and effects, and that it is a disease that needs to
be treated like any other only so much more complicated. Don't be discouraged
Christian, your triumph and best days lay ahead. Just keep doing whatever you're doing to maintain your sobriety. Bravo sir!
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Part of sobriety is accepting people for who they are. Not everybody who drinks is an alcoholic. I hangout with friends who drink with the firm understanding that they are able to drink safely; I cannot. Us alcoholics and addicts are people pleasers and we know the sting of judgement and rejection better than anyone...if your family isn't willing to stop drinking it's not your cross to carry. You do need to get out of there though and set healthy boundaries. Family is family and we don't choose them, but most of us love them as they are through all their faults; unconditionally without judgment and a willingness to help them get well but also respect their inability, lack of interest, or reluctance to stop drinking. I don't know the circumstances but it seems like the most logical plan of action to preserve your own sobriety is to vacate the premises and experience the joys of growth and discovering things you enjoy. Love will come...but like the Supremes and Phil Collins eloquently crooned..."You Can't Hurry Love."
Be well Buddy
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Just concentrate on yourself, you are doing great 
it’s really important to know that this is your journey and you are not going to be able to get other people to understand it, but that’s okay, we lose a lot of people when we become sober but we also gain a lot more 
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It is my understanding that the program teaches us the ability to coexist in a world with drinker. Alcohol, in active addiction, was our master and controlled aspect of our lives. In recovery, we break free from the chains of alcohol-not giving it any power. Protecting one’s recover is paramount-and perhaps the solution is to love from afar, however, I made the choice to stop drinking for myself, no one else. Who am I to place the on expect non-problem drinkers to stop because of my decision for myself? Some of the most supportive people in my life and of my decision are people who do not have an issue with alcohol-and some of the most hurtful and unsupportive people are i have met recovery. Just because someone still drinks doesn’t mean they can’t be supportive.
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My dad has blamed me for not having a relationship with him while my mom and him were going through a divorce and they both used me as a pone in that time so don’t love him or even care if he dies from drinking cause he has never been there when I needed my father
Work the steps, Christian, Keep your side of the street clean. Rid yourself of all of that baggage.
So my father blames me for his divorce with my mom and continues too drink and want to punch him in the face
Let people be.Everybody have their own turning point.Their sobriety time will come
I don’t know the whole situation but it sounds to me like you father is going through the blame game and that he’s not ready to accept his own faults, denial is one of the many forms of addiction, it’s always someone else’s fault