Txhelp, you are
FANTASTIC. I was 18 years old before I even smoked a cigarette in front of my mother, and I never dared to bring booze or dope into their home. I was an addict for 42 years, and my next step down was squalid poverty. I was living in a Hurricane Katrina wreck on the wrong side of the track in the "hood" if ya know what I mean. Even when I was 20 years old and using I knew I was doing wrong, yet I managed to get away with it all those years. I have nothing against Alanon, Noranon, but my thinking is why should a normal person have to learn to cope with an addict? A parent is first a person with a life so why should a normal person have to suffer because of an addict? I like your attitude and am rootin for you and your family.
