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.
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 the bell rung at 3pm, most of my friends couldn’t wait to get out of school. For me, I dreaded that sound.
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.
Why do I go back to her out of fear of what she is doing to herself?
I never knew how I would feel the day I lost her as our relationship was turbulent.
But the thing that keeps me strong is help lines and I realise I am not alone.
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