RECOVERY SAVES LIVES –
Oct. 13, 2022 – Growing up, I always appeared ‘normal,’ but I never really felt secure or accepted. My father was an alcoholic and my mother was the daughter of an alcoholic who died from the disease before I was even born. They split early on, and my time with my father became few and far between, always leaving me to wonder why he chose alcohol over me.
My mother eventually remarried to a man I began to call ‘dad,’ but he was soon out of the picture as well. We were abandoned once again. I was 6 when I saw my mom’s heart shatter, and I knew we couldn’t handle that again, so I vowed to myself I would never be the source of such terrible pain.
