Originally Posted by
Tuffgirl 
Do alcoholics tend toward codependency as well?
My AH is definitely codependent. After reading Melodie Beatties 'Codependent No More' and understanding it a lot better, I can recognise it a mile off these days.
His father was an alcoholic and both his siblings are alcoholics too. His mother and father divorced when he was a teenager and she never sought help for her own shortcomings. She was extremely controlling, so much so that she made his siblings choose between him or her when my AH/Me and his mother fell out. The siblings chose their mother and consequently they haven't spoken for 20yrs.