We were a complicated family
All I wanted was for her to love us, to love me, and I think she did but just could not show it.
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All I wanted was for her to love us, to love me, and I think she did but just could not show it.
All I wanted was some normality, to not be scared to come home from school.
I attribute my survival against the most adverse circumstances to the tenacity developed as a child with an alcoholic parent.
It was like living with Jekyll and Hyde. When she was sober she was lovely and when she was drunk she was awful!
They worry about the potentially embarrassing repercussions.
Just because you’ve had an alcoholic parent, doesn’t mean you’re destined to go down that path.
As a young girl I remember the fear of coming in from school.
I went into “protection mode” – to protect myself from any further hurt or pain.
I learnt not to talk, not to trust and not to feel.
I loved my mum so much, but I was frustrated as I couldn’t understand why, if she loved me, she wouldn’t just stop drinking.
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