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Sesquipedalian · 01-12-2005, 01:49 PM

Hiya Jewelz,

I'm very new and just joined these message boards. My dad is an alcoholic, and I understand. I just started going to alanon because I was afraid that everything I grew up with was affecting my relationship with my boyfriend. I'm clingy, passive agressive, manipulative, and controlling. (This all sounds very bad, but, like all codependents, these behaviors are done with the mask of a smile...). I worry a lot that my boyrfriend will become some type of addict, or that I will, and I'll end up exactly like my parents. I don't know. There are a lot of uncertainties and such, but to answer your question, I don't think that anyone grows up in an alcoholic home and escapes unaffected by it.

01-12-2005, 01:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
Sesquipedalian Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Bloomington, IN Posts: 4	Hiya Jewelz, I'm very new and just joined these message boards. My dad is an alcoholic, and I understand. I just started going to alanon because I was afraid that everything I grew up with was affecting my relationship with my boyfriend. I'm clingy, passive agressive, manipulative, and controlling. (This all sounds very bad, but, like all codependents, these behaviors are done with the mask of a smile...). I worry a lot that my boyrfriend will become some type of addict, or that I will, and I'll end up exactly like my parents. I don't know. There are a lot of uncertainties and such, but to answer your question, I don't think that anyone grows up in an alcoholic home and escapes unaffected by it.