The positives of growing up with an alcoholic...
1.) You learn to take care of your own self.
2.) Youāre far more independent.
3.) The drinking helps you to admit to your own addictions.
4.) It makes you wiser than others as to how to go about talking to an alcoholic.
5.) But no, you donāt hold youāre tongue you just learn how to word things.
6.) In some cases it helps you learn what you donāt want for your own future.
7.) It makes you that much more reliable.
8.) It helps you learn how to hold your own.
9.) Being apart of an alcoholic, having his/her DNA it does make you more prone to developing an alcohol problem yourself but it helps you to know that you are much more likely to become an alcoholic yourself. So some do try to control it, while some donāt. Itās all in the decisions made.
10.) You maybe emotional alot of the time growing up with an alcoholic but that helps you to learn to develope inner strength.
11.) You learn that alcoholics are always right, so sometimes it ends up being you, just walking away from the argument and giving up because alcoholics will argue with you over anything and they must always be right.
12.) It teaches you self-defense.
13.) Growing up in a home with an alcoholic teaches you to believe in something more, to believe there is a better place out there besides inside those four walls.
14.) Sometimes you might be doubtful, others you may have all the hopes in the world for a better life.
15.) Basically, āGrowing up with an alcoholicā teaches you strength!
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