[Magdalen] Wages of Alcohol

[Molly Wolf]

I'm in recovery from my own long history of self-medicating with booze, and I can think of my own alcoholic parents with compassion.  Nobody ever starts out saying "I think when I grow up, I'll be an alcoholic."  I'm not sure they'd have been good parents if they hadn't been alcoholics, but booze sure as hell added mightily to the family dysfunction, to my own issues, and to my lousy relationships with my sisters.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On May 23, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 5/23/2016 3:35:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> michaudme at gmail.com writes:
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> I  watched the gf's parents drink themselves to death.
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> More horribly, I  watched her watch them ditto.  The damage done to her is
> incalculable,  and much of it remains lurking under the surface of what
> would otherwise be  a happy and full-functioning life. She's done alot of
> work to make it less  painful, but it will never be completely gone.
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> I've always said that  if-and-when I see her mother again, I'm going to slap
> the living shit out  of  her.
> -M>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> For me it's a family disease which is well known but was never talked  about
> back in the day.  My younger brother (the really smart one) killed  himself
> with booze at 50.  My father had three sibs (2 physicians, and a  dentist).
> Two of them drank themselves to death.
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> My father had to deal with the wreckage of the family during the  descent
> into hell of the dentist who lived nearby.  Father knew family  members
> needed to leave alcohol alone.  He always referred to ethanol as "fire  
> water"
> after the nick-name given it by the local Chippewa/Ojibway Indians.
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> David Strang.
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