Alcohol abuse stings, stings deeply.
And, it does so for generations.
It poisons.
It sets children on edge often for a life-time of living on edge.
I know too well.
The memories may be distant but my emotions still react and I often still feel the pain even though it’s been well over 55 years since I was exposed to the incessant drinking of close relatives.
Remembering the energy I spent as a boy trying to maintain order in the family and reliving my futile efforts to steer adults away from drinking and the twisting and turning in bed when people raged with drunkenness refreshes the emotional exhaustion that is ever ready to awaken in my body, despite the years.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
If you are a parent who indulges in alcohol and it shifts your moods and messes with your driving and threatens your employment and demands spending money you cannot afford and makes you want to pick on those whom you say you love and it is destroying all semblance of trust people may have in you, please seek help.
Humble yourself.
Get the help you need.
You, and all whom you love, will be better off for it.
Generations to come will thank you.
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