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[quote=Anonymous]I am a new poster who really wanted to roll my eyes at first. But now after reading all these replies, I realize I'm just defensive.

I divorced a man who is the son of an alcohol. He grew up watching his parents fight and his mother berate his father.

My husband seemed extremely wonderful, highly functioning and successful in his twenties. By his thirties, he was starting to crack, and by his forties he hit rock bottom - alcohol and other addictive behaviors. He was a mess.

People who knew him way-back-when say they can't believe it. But I think the seeds were planted in him as a child. I don't know how much is nature and how much is nurture - you have to worry about addiction if you are the child of an alcoholic, of course. And I worry about my own children, even though they seem fine now.

So this is my story, for what it's worth. Would I date the child of an alcoholic now?

NO. Also, no one with mentally ill parents. I've been through enough.

Good luck, OP. Do your research!

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