When I said Mum drank they emphatically said ‘No no no she doesn’t’.
You’d walk home wondering what mess she was in, and what you would have to do to keep the peace.
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You’d walk home wondering what mess she was in, and what you would have to do to keep the peace.
The most surprising thing to me is just how many people think and feel exactly as I do and how it is all so closely linked to being a COA.
She kicked off at my friends and had to be physically restrained.
Of course I didn’t tell anyone about the bottle, just kept it to myself as with everything else.
Don’t let something like this hold you back, it is their problem not yours
My mum kicked my dad out; my dad weren’t having none of it so he smashed my mum’s window and then started calling my mum names.
Even now when he is in hospital at least once a month from blacking out. Even now we know that his liver is beyond repair.
When I look back I seem to have spent a lot of my childhood cleaning, the only way I could make myself calm in the chaos.
But the thing that keeps me strong is help lines and I realise I am not alone.
I realised that I had kept all my feelings bottled inside me for so many years.
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