General Chat

I have not experienced life with an alcoholic to the same extent as most of you but I recognise the pain you have been through and feel so much for all of you. My uncle was an alcoholic. Not even a nice person when sober which was hardly ever. My aunt and cousins lived with verbal and physical abuse for years until the marriage ended when he fell for the woman counselling him. He died some years ago, a recovering alcoholic and after the funeral his eldest son lit a bonfire and beat the flames with the thick, heavy leather belt his father used to beat him with. He then stood there sobbing until the belt had burned. He grieved, not for the man who had died, but for the childhood he had never had. His words not mine. Sue

Here we go again - another cycle starts.

I thinking of you Bendy Take care Anitaxx

Me too, Wendy...... XX BC

Any sort of addiction is sad, as it signifies a loss of self-control and a diminution of the human state. There are so many things that are addictive, many of which we often don't class as addictions but can be just as destructive as what we are discussing. Food (obesity and premature death). Work (neglect of family and children growing up with only one parent around). Power (bullying others around you).