How such a talented and intelligent man could end up like this
I don’t ever remember thinking that my dad was an alcoholic. I thought he was like everyone else’s dad.
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I don’t ever remember thinking that my dad was an alcoholic. I thought he was like everyone else’s dad.
I’d buy cards just to feel normal. “To Dad” on the envelope.
Although we got through those difficult times, the price we paid will never be refunded.
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.
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