Hello
Adore
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 50
Hello
Hello everyone!
I am in such a good mood because of the welcome and support here!
I wanted to introduce myself. I'm a 36 year old, recovering daughter of an alcoholic father. I have spent most of my life being angry at him. As time passes, it is really difficult to be stuck, feeling angry and irritable.
I want to convince myself that I WANT and CAN be emotionally independent of him. I think I have the power to do it sometimes. But then, I go back there and I "depend" on him. It is hard not to keep going back there - and I'm getting ripped up there :-(
I want to get out of depression and get better. So, that is my affirmation.
I hope this makes sense...Thanks for letting me share this space.
I am in such a good mood because of the welcome and support here!
I wanted to introduce myself. I'm a 36 year old, recovering daughter of an alcoholic father. I have spent most of my life being angry at him. As time passes, it is really difficult to be stuck, feeling angry and irritable.
I want to convince myself that I WANT and CAN be emotionally independent of him. I think I have the power to do it sometimes. But then, I go back there and I "depend" on him. It is hard not to keep going back there - and I'm getting ripped up there :-(
I want to get out of depression and get better. So, that is my affirmation.
I hope this makes sense...Thanks for letting me share this space.
Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Mountain West
Posts: 96
Welcome Adore!
I too just recently joined - and I am working on independence from my alcoholic mother. I feel for you, as I understand just how hard this is, it's a very big step in our recovery. Best wishes, and yes, this is a wonderful space to share :0)
I too just recently joined - and I am working on independence from my alcoholic mother. I feel for you, as I understand just how hard this is, it's a very big step in our recovery. Best wishes, and yes, this is a wonderful space to share :0)
Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Arlington Heights, Illinois
Posts: 32
Welcome to you both! I am also fairly new and recently estranged from my alcoholic/drug addicted father and alcoholic, enabler and in total denial mother. I am 31 yrs. old and tired of being "sick and tired". I have been attending al-anon for a month now and gaining much strength from these boards. I know I can be so much better as a person. I have to be...not only for myself...but for my husband and three young children that just don't deserve to go through the erratic behavior that is mine as a result of growing up in the household that I did. It is time for me to get healthy and find peace. I know we can all do it! Keep coming back!
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Starting over all over again
Posts: 4,426
Welcome everybody, those who are new here and those of us still feel new from time to time. This is a great little corner of the world of recovery, made special for us "kids". My "child within" like to think it's a "clubhouse" up in a tree where no grown-ups are allowed, and I'm really glad to have all my friends ( you guys ) up in this tree with me 
Mike
Mike
I'm no angel!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: tampa, fl
Posts: 6,728
Welcome,
I am the daughter of alcoholic parents, one who at age 81 still pours them down. The other, my father stopped drinking 10 years ago.
I had to learn to detach, to accept that they have lived their life as they have chosen. And, that I had to live my life, for me.
My bounderies are in place, when they cross them, I leave, both mentally and physically.
We can't save them, it is up to them.
My Best,
Dolly
I am the daughter of alcoholic parents, one who at age 81 still pours them down. The other, my father stopped drinking 10 years ago.
I had to learn to detach, to accept that they have lived their life as they have chosen. And, that I had to live my life, for me.
My bounderies are in place, when they cross them, I leave, both mentally and physically.
We can't save them, it is up to them.
My Best,
Dolly
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