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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Al-Anon. Have you been or not? If not, why not?[/quote]

I have not, because my understanding has always been that it’s for alcoholics. [/quote]

Al-Anon is not for alcoholics.  It is for the family members or loved ones of alcoholics.  Alcholics Anonymous or AA is for the alcoholic him/herself.  Al-Anon is an AA program run on similar principles but focused on teaching those who live with alcoholics in their lives, what alcoholism is, now it affects the family system and how family members can deal with the way in which someone else's alcoholism is impacting them (i.e. how the alcoholic impacts the non-alcholics).

If you grew up with an alcoholic father, and you watched him part (i.e. cheat?) on your mom, then you are carrying a lot of unconscious baggage that I hope you are exploring with a good therapist.  Parents are our first and longest models that show us how to love and parent.  If we have dysfunctional parents, we tend to carry those same patterns forward in our own life without even realizing it.  This doesn't necessarily mean we behave the same way, but we definitely operate with some warped assumptions about what is normal.

You might be interested in reading more about "adult children of alcoholics".  [/quote]

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