Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I (25M) come from a family of pretty heavy drinkers. My mother (53F), father (55M), sisters (23F and 28F) and cousins/uncles. Including myself.

Since we're in UK, we can legally start drinking at age 18. My younger brother (20M) started at age 17 and spent the first two years of university really going hard at the drinking culture. When we would drive down to pick him up from university once every few weeks, he'd be really hungover, every single time - like a lifeless zombie. He drank pretty much every day, including day drinking pints of beer too.

At the start of his 3rd year last September, he made the decision to completely quit drinking alcohol forever. He said he had enough of the hangovers and blackouts. Initially none of us in the family took him seriously, neither did his friends, but the weeks rolled by and we realized he was serious...

Now it has been 6 months since he last drank, and I honestly think my family feels threatened...all of them keep trying to pressure him into having a drink, but he doesn't budge. After I had a heart to heart with him, he told me his drinking was really bad, and that his hangovers would last days even. I then told him that I'm incredibly proud of him, and that he's inspired me to stop drinking too (1 week sober so far).

So my dad asks my why my brother hasn't drank and how he needs to "lighten up", I tell my dad that what my brother did is an incredibly brave thing to do at his age, and my dad tells me to shut up and calls me an asshole....he goes on to say that "You're discrediting real brave people like soldiers and firemen when you use words like bravery so casually". My mum agreed him with too....I'm lost for words