Originally Posted by nodaybut2day

Ultimately, this is what made me leave my XAH. I couldn't bear the thought of my daughter growing up and thinking that a "normal" family involved the madness of drug addiction and alcoholism. I imagined her as a grown woman, involved with a man like her father, unable to get herself free, and then I realized that I had to leave, to give her the opportunity to experience a different kind of childhood.