Question
Hi all.I planned to attend an ACOA for the first time today, but I chickened out at the last minute. I suddenly felt guilty and I figured since the situation is no longer occurring than maybe I'm making a big deal of things. However I just finished reading DR. Jan's book Adult Children of Alcoholics and after relating to a good bit of it I figure, although my father is no longer drinking that doesn't mean I have resolved all my issues. Emotionally I think I'm still in that period. I grew up in home where fighting was a regular occurrence and I often came home with a sense of dread not knowing what the evening held in store. I could predict it wouldn't be peaceful judging by the glaze looks my father and older sibling had. Anyhow, I realize I have a hard time opening up to people, forming decent relationships, I cling to bad ones, I people please at times, etc. Do things get better?