Family of Alcoholics

Delaing with being raised and comsumed with alcohol when your a child makes it very difficult not to become one as well.

Its hard to know that being raised by alcoholics makes it so easy to become one. I dont think its fair that you always have to keep in the back of your mind that you can become addicted and end up becoming something you never wanted to be in the 1st place.

My cousins that were raised by alcoholics became alcoholics themselves or worse drug abusers. I had my battle with alcoholism and drug addition in the past. Its always tempting to go to the darkside and just let go.

I think realizing what can happen If I decided to start again has kept me from going back to my old ways.. Every day is a challange and everyday I dont go there is a small victory.

Yes, quite true. Not just alcoholism or drug addiction either, people in addicted families tend to have addictive personalities. This isn't true for all members of the family, but it's much more likely to have some kind of addiction if the parents or immediate family have addictions. It's a legacy problem.

gotjavaman79 wrote:Every day is a challange and everyday I dont go there is a small victory.

Yes yes!