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[quote=Anonymous]I think you want to believe that “addicts” can never recover or change because to admit that would be to have to face that your own parent had a choice—that your parent actively chose alcohol over you, that your parent had the power to change and did not. If an “addict” is an unchangeable thing then your parent was helpless, had no choice, etc.—it’s probably preferable for you to think this. It’s probably very threatening to you to realize that someone with a predisposition to alcohol abuse can actually overcome that. Because if that’s true then why did your parent choose not to do that? It’s a very depressing thought I know.

It sucks to understand that a parent had a choice and actively chose alcohol over your welfare. I say this as the child of an alcoholic who found myself beginning to excessively drink and stopped drinking completely over 20 years ago.

I think my husband and two children would not question my dedication to sobriety or my fitness as a spouse or a parent. I’m really sad for you. You need to find some new way of thinking about this before you lose your sister.[/quote]

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