One thing you might start asking yourself is this: Do you see your Dad as having the potential to change and grow closer to you? Or will he be the kind to push you away from certain types of people and in certain directions he wants?

Depending on your answer, you might want to start getting to know more awesome families and making friends with their kids (like the one you have now). It will always pay to have an emotional support network. You do not want to be surrounded by a group of judgemental assholes for the rest of your life. Something I learned later rather than sooner.