It's amazing when you start opening up to people how you find that EVERYBODY has an A in their family! If it isn't a spouse or an ex, it's a parent or an uncle or a niece.
And it's also amazing when you get out from that place of hiding everything inside the family the amount of help you find. How willing people are to help you out.
There is lots of good in the world. A lot more than you think when you're living in the alcoholic fear factory.