Perhaps, but that doesn’t mean you should let this happen. I don’t know your age or situation, if you’re an adult and living independently, or are living with your parents currently. But, if the former especially, parents have a way of manipulating and controlling their adult children to keep themselves relevant, and of course think they know better. If you don’t want your father to start dictating how you live, especially if you’re out on your own, then tell him to mind his own business and you let him know how you’re doing when you see him at thanksgiving, in the meantime the lawn needs to be mowed and there’s laundry to do, so he can make himself useful and get on it.