Originally Posted by
lillamy 
And it is such a pity that we're so good at keeping up appearances and pretending we're all OK -- because we're acting as if it's shameful, both to be an alcoholic and do have one in the family. So we're all putzing around in our little bubbles of shame and thinking everyone else has it together, when we could be supporting each other...
We are all about "keeping up appearances," aren't we?
This reminds me of the summer when there were fifty million flies in our house. We felt so dirty, like we couldn't keep our house clean. My mother kept looking for fly paper, and most places were sold out. She finally started calling the neighbors, to see if they had any lying around, and learned that
everyone was having a fly problem.
We are so concerned about not letting anyone see past our white picket fences, but everyone is hiding behind the same facade.