I grew up with alcoholic parents, it was horrible! I was the one to get them to bed, to drive them home from family functions because they were too drunk to do it themselves. I watched my father die a very slow death due to his excessive drinking, and I grew weary of all the guilt from never doing anything right by them. My parents relied on me for everything, to get them alcohol, to driving them home, to pouring them drinks etc. I still to this day have deep feelings of detest for their abusiveness and embarrassment. I had to put this all to the side when my mother died of cancer two years ago, she never quit drinking until about three weeks before her death. I took care of her in her dying days, but harbored so much guilt and resentment that still haunts me to this day. I make sure that my children are protected from alcohol, I know it is out there, but I am active in their schools educating parent's on the devestating effects of drugs and alcohol. My children are very aware and smart when it comes to what this does to people.
Please, protect your children from this, it is horrible!
