Forum: Family & Friends of Alcoholics/Addicts

Hi All, I am new,I grew up with a alcoholic Father.He was abusive sever to My Mom. I was always afraid.And to this day it affects me.We were always...

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Why do people take drugs? People take drugs because they want to change something about their lives. Here are some of the reasons young people...

Steps in developing detachment Step 1: It is important to first identify those people, places, and things in your life from which you would be...

Hello, I am having such a hard time defining what is going on...I just separated from a man I was living for the past two years with after months of...

I don't know if this is the right place for this but reading the different forums I think this is the right place. He wasn't a member of the forums...

Are You Enabling an Alcoholic or Addict? Enabling Quiz By Buddy T, About.com Often well-meaning efforts to help someone with an...

WHERE DO I START? I AM NOW 53 YEARS OF AGE AND UNTIL TODAY I HAVE NEVER REACHED OUT FOR HELP. MY FATHER KILLED HIMSELF WHEN I WAS TEN. MY LIFE...

CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If a child lives with criticism, She learns to condemn. If a child lives with...

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i am a adult child of a alcoholic/ addict. my oldest son is drug addict and wont speak to me because i wanted to get him help before he turns 18...

My husband is an alcoholic and I am a non-drinking non-alcoholic. Our experience of alcoholism seems to differ markedly in a couple of respects from...

Well My mom and My step-dad are finally seperating he is supposed to be out of the house on Sunday.. 6 days to go.. Its really sad because.. He...

my oldest daughter has had alot of emotional problems for quite some time. she has a daughter who is four and i have had custody of her since she...

Setting Boundaries In Relationships by Rinatta Paries Are you getting all that you want out of your relationships? Or, are you instead...

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Codependence By Stephanie Hancock Codependence is defined as a relationship in which one person enables or encourages the addictive behavior of...

Healing Codependency By Linda M. Smith Healing codependency does not mean curing codependency. Healing codependency is a process. Healing...

Are You Codependent? 10 Questions to Ask Yourself Codependency or codependent behavior is often found in relationships involving an active...

Why do we become codependent? What causes it? It?s widely believed we become codependent through living in systems (families) with rules that...

What is Emotional Abuse? Abuse is any behavior that is designed to control and subjugate another human being through the use of fear, humiliation,...

Self-Worth "Not only were we taught to be victims of people, places, and things, we were taught to be victims of ourselves, of our own humanity....

Stinking Thinking "One of the core characteristics of this disease of Codependence is intellectual polarization - black and white thinking. Rigid...

Romantic Relationships & Toxic Love - the Dysfunctional Norm "The gift of touch is an incredibly wonderful gift. One of the reasons we are here...

Grief Process Techniques "The way to stop reacting out of our inner children is to release the stored emotional energy from our childhoods by...

Inner Child Healing Techniques "When we are reacting out of old tapes based on attitudes and beliefs that are false or distorted, then our...

Positive Affirmations A state of Grace is the condition of being Loved unconditionally by our Creator without having to earn that Love. We are...

Hi I am Nikki.. I am new to this site.. I grew up with an alcoholic step-dad... I was 4 when He and my mom were married and I am Now 28.. I live...

Hey Guys, I just got off the phone with my fiance, We've been arguing all day, so this probably is worse than it should be. But I tried to let him...