Poll: How many of us had alcoholic parents
Member
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 112
Didn't know my sperm donor, he didn't want anything to do with us, but my mom was an alcoholic my entire life. My stepdad was not, but he usually had a couple of beer every night but never once in 30 years had more than two.
Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Boulder, CO
Posts: 419
My Father is an alcoholic who is still drinking. He lives across the country so i don't see him a whole lot. He has dealt with alot of pain in his life by drinking. My Grandmother and Brother both died well before their time. He is a good guy but alcohol has him trapped and it dominates his life. He's living in squalor by a lake in upstate NY. He got handed a six figure inheritance and has all but squandered it away with drinking. My Grandfather on my Fathers side was also an alcoholic and got hit by a car while crossing a road. Tragic.
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: North East
Posts: 621
Originally Posted by Legolady 
Both my parents are alcoholics, my dad's family are all big drinkers aswell one of them im particular is always in and out of rehab.
Drinking and getting drunk always seemed to be the norm in my household whilst growing up as a child, my dad took me for my first alcoholic drink when I was only 16 and encouraged it over the years, guess be used me as his drinking partner, since being sober he's not interested in having a relationship with me, my parents are both completely unsupportive of my descion to be sober but honestly..I don't care anymore, i want to set a good example for my little boy, I didn't have a good role model growing up but my son will! Im sticking with Sobriety! 😀
Drinking and getting drunk always seemed to be the norm in my household whilst growing up as a child, my dad took me for my first alcoholic drink when I was only 16 and encouraged it over the years, guess be used me as his drinking partner, since being sober he's not interested in having a relationship with me, my parents are both completely unsupportive of my descion to be sober but honestly..I don't care anymore, i want to set a good example for my little boy, I didn't have a good role model growing up but my son will! Im sticking with Sobriety! 😀
That's wonderful
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: North East
Posts: 621
Originally Posted by Aellyce
Both of my parents were some of the most sober people I had met: they very rarely drank, apparently never tried any drugs in their life, did not smoke etc. But both of my grandfathers were long-term alcoholics who also abandoned their families, I had an uncle who died of alcoholism and an aunt who seriously struggled with it. Also both of my family lineages are packed with a variety of mental illnesses, suicides etc. I have no doubts that I carry some baggage in these departments but I am also convinced that I am the most educated and self-aware about these things at least among the relatives I have met or know of. There aren't many of them left and I really only keep in touch with one cousin, kind of.
Thanks Aellyce
Keep the posts coming guys😊
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: North East
Posts: 621
Originally Posted by sunshine72
Mom and Dad alcoholics. Dad passed from Cirrhosis. Mom still drinks daily. Most extended family alcoholics and drug addicts. Sigh I pray for my son that this curse skips him. He is only 15 now.
Keep the conversation about alcohol open with him .....let him know that it could be in his genes and alcohol could be a problem.
sunshine
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: North East
Posts: 621
Originally Posted by sunshine72
Mom and Dad alcoholics. Dad passed from Cirrhosis. Mom still drinks daily. Most extended family alcoholics and drug addicts. Sigh I pray for my son that this curse skips him. He is only 15 now.
Originally Posted by comtnman740
My Father is an alcoholic who is still drinking. He lives across the country so i don't see him a whole lot. He has dealt with alot of pain in his life by drinking. My Grandmother and Brother both died well before their time. He is a good guy but alcohol has him trapped and it dominates his life. He's living in squalor by a lake in upstate NY. He got handed a six figure inheritance and has all but squandered it away with drinking. My Grandfather on my Fathers side was also an alcoholic and got hit by a car while crossing a road. Tragic.
im glad your here and sober
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: North East
Posts: 621
Originally Posted by Truthseeker11
I wanted to add, I think alcohol killed my mother along with medicines she was taking. She had a significantly smaller brain and got dementia around age 52 and succumbed to it ten years later.
truthseeker sorry about your mom
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: North East
Posts: 621
Originally Posted by August252015
Interesting that people are writing loving and caring if their answer is "no."
Anyway....mine were loving and caring, and my mom is an alcoholic. All over her side of the family too. No alcohol abuse on my dad's side in obvious numbers; my uncle is a heavy drinker but not alcoholic.
Anyway....mine were loving and caring, and my mom is an alcoholic. All over her side of the family too. No alcohol abuse on my dad's side in obvious numbers; my uncle is a heavy drinker but not alcoholic.
Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Nashville
Posts: 326
I grew up in a strict household where both of my parents didn't drink at all or smoke, etc.
I know a lot of my extended family has drug and/or alcohol addictions, but my mom had always been pretty good at sheltering me from it growing up. I have two sisters, and none of them ever had any problems with it.
I know a lot of my extended family has drug and/or alcohol addictions, but my mom had always been pretty good at sheltering me from it growing up. I have two sisters, and none of them ever had any problems with it.
Member
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Canada
Posts: 500
My mom is definitely and alcoholic and my dad drinks heavily but can stop after a few and switch to tea. Although that wasn't always the case. To be honest it still blows my mind that they can drink the way that they do (they are in their 70s) and still get up and do things the next day. There is a lot of alcoholism on my mother's side. I believe her brother is a huge drinker as well as her dad.
Member
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 1,601
My mom was not alcoholic. My Dad has the isms. He was a loose cannon growing up. He takes a lot of medication now. His father was a violent alcoholic. My mother's mother was an alcoholic but quit drinking before I was born. She never got recovery though and was pegged as "crazy." She spent the last 30 years of her life in bed. She was horribly depressed and anxious and never got out of bed except to use the bathroom. My Dad called her "the talking head" because she was covered in blankets in her bed and you could only see her head. It was very, very sad. I've got an aunt and uncle who are definitely alcoholic (aunt is sober, uncle not), 2 cousins in recovery from alcohol, and then a lot of folks in my family are "functioning" alkies. I come from an absolute dynasty of alcoholics. Shake my family tree and bottles fall out.
Currently Active Users Viewing this Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
