Hi Crew-
Yes, I born an alcoholic. My father died from crashing his car into a lightpost. He was an alcoholic. His brother is an alcoholic and addict.
On my mother's side, my grandfather died a slow, alcoholic death, and his two sons (my two uncles are both alcoholics). I have cousins, many, who are alcoholics.
That's just going back two generations. There are many, many more and will be more coming.
Coincidence? I think not b/c now that I'm knowledgeable about the subject, I can see my "alcoholic" behavior begin at a very early age and WAY before I ever drank.
Also, as soon as I started drinking, I didn't just have a good time that night, my whole world changed and I thought I found a secret for my life, a "cure" for me if you will. I hung on to that until the very end, destroying almost everything and almost killing myself, but it was that important to me.
Even with all the damage going on around me, I was terrified to lose my "cure", even though that SOB had betrayed me
Kjell~