Children of alcoholics!!

[Mess]

How many of you grow up with alcoholic parents?? Did it affect you any way and is affecting you even now?? I just wanted to know it as My parents were not alcoholic but still became alcoholic and want to know how children of alcoholic think and feel??

[jr_sci]

My dad is a heavey drinker. He came home drunk everyday. On my exam days I couldn't study. He creates a big nonsense in our house. He fights with my mom and so on. Now, as I have grown up, I have realized the deadly affect one might have if the parent is a heavy drinker.

[websurfpro]

I have lived with my gradfather for almost 2 years, he was then retired and was a heavy drinker. I can`t say he had a vad behaviour towards me, but i suffered because I knew that our relashionship would be much nicer if he duid not drink. I was allywas telling him that he drink too much, but he annoyed by that everytime I tried to explain that drinkin is no good for him.

[hopesonfire]

Both of my parents are alcoholics and have been my whole life. My dad went to rehab when I was very young but now he has resorted back to drinking, although not nearly as much as before. I'm pretty sure my mom became an alcoholic after my dad. Anyways, between that and my dad being verbally abusive, my childhood has instilled in me a fear of opening up to people, a lack of trust, a need to be responsible for everyone and everything, a need for constant control over everything, perfectionism, running away from my problems, and about a million other things. It has so far been the most defining experience of my life but I am working on all of these issue slowly but surely and am happy to say that I have already at least partially overcome some of them.

[zionshael]

My father was an alcoholic. He was a policeman. I am a Christian and I believe that if I were not a Christian I would have followed my father's alcoholic life.

The effect of alcoholism on me is that I become introvert. I am more comfortable if I am alone. I used to stay away from home when I was a kid because I was afraid of my father becoming wild when he was drunk.

Yet I love my father no matter who he was. He just passed away.

[happyguy]

My father was an alcoholic before, though nto a heavy drinker. But now, he is a christian and doing well in the Lord. While drinking he does nto give us problem or lose his cool.

I pray that God will give kids growing up under alcoholic parents the grace to go through it. There is nothing kids can do about it except pray and wish for a change, a positive change. God did it for me, He will do it for you or them too.