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Old 05-09-2013, 12:41 AM
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Reedling
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I think it is the job of a teenager to have problems that stress out the parents while the parents try to help the teenager gain life skills to cope with those problems.

It's called growing up, and this is how you get ready to be an adult.

It's a difficult messy business at best, helping a kid become an adult. But in a dysfunctional family with an active alcoholic? Kid is not allowed to cause stress... the natural order is reversed. The kid is used by the parents.

I would personally not choose to cook dinner again for someone who vomited it back at me. It's not about teaching her a lesson about drinking, it's about me not cooking dinner for someone who vomits it at the table.
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