For people who grew up with alcoholics in you're family .Do you drink alcoholic beverages?
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My father died of alcoholism at 44, his liver gave out while he was homeless lying in a park sleeping. Very sad. My mother is in AA. My brother is 14 and already seems to have symptoms of alcohol abuse, drinks alone etc.There are other alkies in my family as well but they seem to function. I went through the whole alcohol abuse when I was a teenage, drank by myself all the time drank to drunkeness earned a reputation of an alky. But now that I am 25 I have a beer or two mabye every two or three weeks sometimes longer and dont miss it at all. When I have those beers I drink them over a course of a few hours and never get drunk. I think that it runs in my family but I dont believe I am an alcoholic because other things in my life are much more important and I find other ways to deal wth my issues. I wnat my daughter growing up not seeing me drunk and not thinking its ok so that to me is enough to keep me free from getting drunk for a long long time.
847148
I was raised baptist and drinking period was wrong.  They had grape juice for "lord's supper" lmao...thank god (no pun) I do not practice organized religion anymore.  I love some wine. (from wine country, CA)
1121713
Look Honey, your Dad is a classic alcoholic, and it is quite normal for alcoholics to blame others, especially family members for their drinking. Take it from me, as my Father was just the same, and eventually drank himself to death. He also threatened to and attempted suicide several times, but it is not your fault, it is his. You don't get to pick your parents, and I think you should cut him off all together, and tell him that is what you are going to do. I did the same to my Dad, and told him if he quit drinking and being abusive that I would allow him back into my life. He chose to drink, and I hardly ever saw him again. His loss, my gain, and I have no regrets.
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My dad used to all the time.\n\nWe're in Kentucky.
1061984
alcoholic beverages :)))
627155
I lost my father when i was 12. He was an abusive alcoholic. and i seen him do to much as a child that i must say with him gone i don't feel like i have to look over my shoulder all the time. he was my father and i will always love him but if he didnt go he would have killed my family.
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My dad and I had a similar situation.  I moved in with him at 15 and we partied all the time.  But when I got older, I couldn't take the aftermath of a good bender. I didn't want to be like that drunk old man that didn't have a license, and broke his leg riding home from a bar on a bicycle.  I had a hard time breaking away, he was my dad and we'd be through hell together.  But I had to realize that he had at least started most of the trouble in the beginning.  And that I didn't want him to use me to validate his addictions.  Like saying "that's how we bond".  Usually I just resented him more after we partied.  I haven't seen my dad in 5 years.  I miss him, and I love him, but he's lost everything.  They have to want to quit like we did.  Sometimes, like once a year, I call him.  Make sure he's still alive and doing ok.  But from my experience, they only get worse.  Last time I called my dad had lost the house, his job, living with 4 other people in a house that should be condemned.  He's 51 and having seizures when he goes sober for hours.  I love him soooo much, but I can't bring that beer to him, roll his j, drive him around or keep his dealers off his butt anymore.  Just pray alot, think about the good times and move far enough away that she can't find you until you're independent enough to say no to her.
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I went through AA and alcohol is a drug. I think real love is forever. I used to watch my great great Aunt speak about her late husband who had passed 12 years earlier and her eyes would just shine, and I hope to one day have that feeling. No drug in the world could do that.
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In too many ways to go into here, but briefly .. kids with unhappy childhoods put up a shell, then later the shell becomes a wall. Kids also assume that their alcoholic family is the only unhappy family there is, suffering because they don't know otheer families in other houses are unhappy too. Read "Adult Children of Alcoholics" for more details -- I cried when I recognized the syndrome in my life. Very good luck to you.
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I make fruity drinks though YOU CAN taste the alcohol, I don't like beer for its taste...tooo bitter, though if I get drunk enough I will start to drink it.
714281
ur an alcoholic if u're addictive to it. i don't think ur an alcoholic 'coz u only drink after a meal, maybe u just love the taste.
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Hello, my name is Alex and I'm an alcoholic. Wait. Wrong meeting. Lets start over.\n\nHello, my name is Alex and I'm a Yahoo Answers-aholic.
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i have been raised with an alcoholic family....mother, her husband, 2 uncles and 1 aunt, so i know full well what you mean about not wanting to be around your dad, i had this every day for a long time, eventually i gave up and left, one of my family members died, she was lovely sober but horrible drunk, but i loved her, i used to visit her more because she was not as bad as the others, she was 32 when she died i blamed myself because, that day, i should have been there but i couldn't make it, she died alone, no one there with her, i tortured myself for years wondering what it was like for her as she was dying and no one was there to help, i felt so sad for her.... i felt guilty and i could not sleep, so i know exactly how you feel... i watched the rest of my family ruin themselves and i had to do something about it and decided to try and get them help....2 have not touched a drink in 11 months, the rest wont have it....they want to stay drunk, but i tried...i have helped myself tackle my obsession about my aunt, i see now that alcoholism is a disease....so please do not blame yourself over your dads death you have to stop thinking like that....just take one day at a time, he would like you to be happy....bless you....x\n\nreturnofkarlos.......congratulations.....i admire you....keep going
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I drank everyday about for something like 20yrs the pressures of raising a daughter alone I guess and everyone told me I was a alcoholic and I couldn't stop on my own.  But one day I did I just stopped because I acually have no desire to drink.  I think it has been 10yrs now I really don't keep track.  I could drink now if I wanted to but I just don't want to.  There is nothing about drinking alcohol that I find attractive or desirable.  I don't care if other people do but there really not pleasant to be around.  It amazes my friends because they thought I would probably drink my self to death.  They were wrong.  Now I quit smoking after 35 years I think thats a little tougher, you really have to put your mind to it.
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Talk about your family.
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my mom's side is allergic to anything alcoholic and my dad's side goes overboard to the point of killing themselves. it is not a chance that i feel comfortable taking. i don't have any friends that have a "problem". however, in high school they used drugs. they don't now. hubby used for a bit. before we met he said that he had a "drinking problem" and stopped. very seldom he has a drink.\n\ni know of a girl that has a severe drug problem, i don't think that she will admit it to herself. she would rather buy drugs than food for the kids, lives with her mom-at age 31, doesn't know how to drive and mooches off of everyone that she can. people are getting wise, thank goodness. she's on he 4th kid, now and her 3 year old knows how to use the word "bong" correctly in a sentence. scary, huh?
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If the person is dependable on it and must have it everyday, then yes.  If they obsess because they are out and must run to the store to get more, then yes.  If they can willingly skip it and do without, then no.  From my understanding of alcoholism it's a dependency and the person cannot go without it.