Lily123

My mother was an alcoholic and died as a result of alcoholism at age 50. My father is what I like to think of as a "functioning alcoholic". Definitely runs in the family.

Klp9999

The family and extended family I know none have a problem with alcohol or drugs and not one of them have alcohol in the house.
I drank for 28 years last 10 out of control drinking sober 1 year and 3 months!

Ipanema

My Father was and he was Sober for 5 years before he passed away at 61. R.I.P. Dad
My Mother was Bipolar and Alcoholic. We were all scared to death of her. She died in 2012
My Maternal Grandmother died at age 24 due to Uremia, caused by Alcoholism.
My Father's parents were both Alcoholics and died at 48 and 49 years due to Alcoholism.

Ruturn

I'm adopted and my adoptive parents are not alcoholic. My birth mother's father died of alcoholism, and she has issues herself. The birth father was in a motorcycle accident while still in high school, and I understand it pretty much made a vegetable out of him, so I have no ideas about that side. I pray every day I haven't given this horrible disease to my kids and that I can repair the damage I've already done to them.

marshmallows

My mother was an alcoholic although she is now teetotal and has been since I can remember but my father is still very much in the throws of alcoholism.

MnEman

maternal grandfather, mother, father sort of a dry drunk, brother, aunt, step father, and all his family, and me

wackybunny

dad, step dad, mother drank a lot for 10 years, grandfather, grandfather, uncle, aunt, shall I go on?

mydruggie

maybe both my grandfathers, but i've never seen either out of control drunk. although my maternal grandfather was a bit of a gambler and drinker. i love to play poker as well. since i was young, everyone agrees that i take most after my maternal grandfather.

my father has a beer almost every day when he gets home from work, never 2. even when i was younger, he would give me sips of his beer. alcohol was always in the house but it never even crossed my mind. i've never seen my dad controlled by alcohol, EVER. my mother drinks even less.

a few times i did drink my dads booze, but i was over 18 then.

if i have kids, i'll condition them the same way...

but now the marijuana... that's a totally different story, because my family is from Transylvania, they didn't even know what weed is, until i started using it.

mary5alive

dad was really bad alcoholic for 9+ years growing up. He started when I was in 1st grade. He relapsed once last year, but has since then stopped due to his liver and pancreas in bad shape.
My grandad's on both sides were alcoholics.

There's 6 kids in my family, i'm the 5th out of us and am the only one addicted to alcohol. :/

Betterlife1

I would say my Dad was a problem drinker. Or at worst a functional alcoholic. He drank at least a cocktail or two every day, but I don't ever remember him drunk. He passed away young. My mom is a late bloomer. In her 80's now and has two martinis a night!

Pedro1234

My father was a functioning alcoholic up until he past away at 65 years of age. I often wonder if the drinking contributed to his death and if so how much. Miss you dad
My mother is a functioning alcoholic with no intention of quitting. (I dare not even mention the idea) Her mother was a chronic alcoholic that caused her death in the end.

BSwan09

Neither of my parents were alcoholics, and no one in my extended family that I know of is an alcoholic. My parents even gave up drinking almost completely (maybe 1 or 2 drinks every couple of months) while they were raising us.

I just didn't listen to them when they told me to only drink in moderation.

soberlife123

My mom is/was a high functioning alcoholic. Never met my dad.

LadyinBC

I come from a family of them. Grandfather, uncles, my dad, and my mom. The only one left alive now is my mom. Our relationship is now different in a good way as when I told her about my drinking, you know, she got it. And now I get her.

United7

My father was an alcoholic, as were both his parents.
My mother drinks a fair bit, funnily enough more than I ever did. Yet I wouldn't describe her as an alcoholic, she definitely isn't physically dependent at least.

I'm on the fence as to whether alcoholism is genetic, it might be that our family has many alcoholics just because it's normal for us to drink a lot

dSober

No, but what's the difference? I am and now my daughter is and blames me. That's going to hurt her, not help her. Who cares how we got this way... we just need to do what's necessary to survive and recover.

dSober

Blame and shame are what kept me drunk for so long. I couldn't start healing until I stopped that crap.

Kllme

Strangest thing: my mom has had at most 1 glass of wine in her life. She is now in her 60's.

Dad: Drank like a fish and died of cirrhosis at 51.

That is what makes my situation tough as I have no siblings and my mom just thinks "it's stupid"

dSober

Yeah, a lot of non-alcoholics don't understand what it's like. How could they? Every addiction counselor I've met is recovering themselves.

Sudz No More

My Father was a major Alcohol Abuser and would get belligerent and verbally and physically abusive. He drank heavy for a little over 20 years like I did. The difference for him was that he made a decision to quit and never drank again. I struggled with relapses over and over for years until I got to a point where I learned to manage it. I still can't figure out how he was able to just stop like that after all those years of abuse.