I have come to understand that alcoholism IS a family disease.....and that without recovery it is inherited through the generations.
No alcoholism in my immediate family, but there was on both sides prior.
I was brought up in a very co-dependent family situation.
I was primed and ready to meet, love and get into a relationship with an addict. It was all I knew.
Loving and addict has helped me to break a cycle I did not even know I was in. I have not liked the lessons, but the learning has been so worth it.