Yes , I Remwber when I was an adult the first time I smelled a rye and ginger I thought .. That smells like grandma ! I didn't realize she was an alcoholic when I was little though. She was always awesome and there for me.
Do you have that one family member who seems to be an alcoholic?
More than one, waaayy more.
Observing their foolish and self-destructive behaviors growing up drove me to demand better of myself. All in all, a profoundly teachable experience.
Not that I know of. I don't have much family left anymore and my kids all live in different states and probably wouldn't tell me anyway. Although I did hear that one of my daughters-in-law was a closet drunk but being married to my youngest son could have caused that.
Half my kinsfolk are functioning alcoholics.
My dead mom was drunk all my life well over 55 yrs. Growing up as the eldest I had to find legal age relatives, strangers and anyone, I gave them the money and we bailed her out of jails, whorehouses, hospitals and strangers homes. She was arrested for murder so drunk she couldn't remember. She was a 367 day and nightmare. My youngest bro (55) said she turned him onto alcohol and drugs. I believed him. He's released again today from the psycho ward.
Its been 35 yrs since I last saw him. He was so drunk he missed her funeral. There's more. But smh.
I use to be one. You either have the happy drunks or the fighting drunks . I was a happy drunk. But im no longer a drunk
Yea. My grand-father's brother, but they are both dead now.
There are a few. My grandfather was one, but he quit drinking before I was born. When My grandmother gave him an ultimatum. Her or the bottle, He chose her.
My husband is one too. So was his maternal grandfather and his own father. His grandfather drank himself to death. His father quit drinking years before I met him. My husband hasn't had a drink in 5 months. He is a much better person without the alcohol. He knows if he didn't quit he would die from it.