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- Well and truly on the rollercoaster as a COA
  Hello to all my fellow COA’s Here’s to all of us on our respective journeys, our strength, our patience, our love, our fight, our tears, our frustrations, our anger, our anxieties, our being. 3 months after...
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- Unhappy Birthdays, as a child of an alcoholic
  Earlier this month was my birthday, a very big one for me and one I never thought I’d make it to. I am so proud of myself for making it as far as I...
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- Alcohol Abuse Mother
  Hi all, this is my first time posting here and feel a bit nervous about it. My mother has a really bad drinking problem. She drinks all the time hiding booze around her house....
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  I genuinely dont see how my mum will ever get sober, today started off ok and then we went out to lunch, she said she knew today was going to be stressful so she...
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- Can never quite get it right
  Being around drunk people is insufferable as is but especially when it’s your mum who you know is going to start yelling any minute now, today I was trying to avoid her in the...
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- I’m so tired and scared
  Sometimes I really do feel like my mum will never get sober especially on nights like these , she went out to the pub after school and i went with her cuz I worry...
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Well and truly on the rollercoaster as a COA
Hello to all my fellow COA’s Here’s to all of us on our respective journeys, our strength, our patience, our love, our fight, our tears,…
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Earlier this month was my birthday, a very big one for me and one I never thought I’d make it to. I am so proud…
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Hi all, this is my first time posting here and feel a bit nervous about it. My mother has a really bad drinking problem. She…
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Hi, Thank you for sharing here. I’m so glad you had space to write this out, how did it feel for sharing it? It can…
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