As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.
The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.
Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.