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Originally posted by Tam
psyko.... that's great that he has been sober so long, how are the two of you now about this? I hope you managed to salvage your relationship or at least some of it?
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A few months before I turned 18, my mom decided she had had enough. While my dad and brothers were out of town, she took off to Indiana with another guy.
At the very same time, my dad was doing AA and had just met another woman. Since my mom left, he has supported me and my 2 brothers and has helped his girlfriend raise her 2 children as well. My two brothers and him moved in with his girlfriend roughly a year after my mom left. During that year, there was a lot of family therapy.
My mom has since come back home. Thankfully, I know get along very well with both my parents. My relationship with my dad is better than it ever was. Whatever happened in the past was left there and we don't dwell on it.
Luckily though, my parents really weren't abusive towards me and my brothers (except for the occasional stupidities said while drunk). Overall, they were very supportive of us and our capabilities and talent, even though our home life was so destructive.
I completely understand what you mean when you say you're a better person because of all this. I learned to be very independant at a young age, something I've always been proud of. It's definetly made me a lot stronger too and a lot more impervious to pain or abuse of any sort.