Nope.

yeah my dad is soon to be dead from bein a drunk.lol

I don't think he was alcoholic, but my dad did drink quite a bit, still does. It wasn't very nice, he was worse when he was drunk than sober

Yes, either a highly functioning alcoholic or maybe a strong user. Either way they did not set a very good example for any of their kids.

No, addicted to prescription medication.

No, but my best friends dad hit me once, while he was drunk. He was a major alcoholic, and he abused my friend a lot.

Fortunately not.

Yes my Mother, but she didnt pick up a drink till I was in my early teens. But it ultimately took her life :(

Alcoholic father. He drank all the time and he was mean when he was really drunk.

No, he does smoke rather alot of pot though. It's bad, but better than drinking too much, at least with pot he mellow out instead of getting angry and abusive.

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No one drank in our home.

yes.My dad s an alcoholic.He is one of those kind who lived for himself all throughout,never cared for his kids or wife.So every night was horrifying for us.I never slept peacefully

Both of my parents were boozers. Me and my two sisters spent most nights at home by ourselves from about the age of 6 onward. We did our own cooking and everything. I would never leave my kids alone at home to cook on a gas stove etc like my parents did, but we grew up fast. We were left to look after other peoples kids a lot too, when we were just kids ourselves.

Alcoholic Father plus a pot head too. He would had to have his Jack Daniels and weed every night. He was very abusive and crazy. I rememeber when I was about 8 yrs. old I had just got a new barbie corvette car and I was playing in the living room. My dad came in there and told me to shut the hell up then he took my car and broke it in a million pieces. I didn't talk to him for like a week I was so mad at him.

Yes, but I didn't know it at the time. It wasn't until I went to college and came back home for breaks that I realized my dad was a sauce hound.

I did not but my Mom did. In fact she believes that because of her family's leaning to be alcoholics then she is one, too. In spite of the fact that she never drinks and never has.

Yes, My mother is a bad alcohlic and she has always been. My brothers sister and I has suffered with it all our lifes and know I notice my childran suffering from it to, but that is their grandmaother so I am torn! It is werid though I can not bring myself to drink every often because I don't want my childran to remember me that way.

No, neither one of them drank alcohol of any kind.

When my mother came into my life at age 13, she was really bad and very mean. Now at age 46 she still drinks everyday but has mellowed.

This is a true question. Much pain out there. My whole family in one way or another was addicted to something. My mother was very bad. Dad left at age 6 because mom got sick. She then got hook on pain meds. I did everything for myself, including dressing mom, buying groceries, even banking her SSN check. I was 8 years old walking around with 800 dollars. She's now in a nursing home, whenever she needs a fix she comes up with some pain and makes them take her to the emergency room. Doctors keep asking me what to do with her. S@@t I don't know but wish it would end.

YES, at least a Stepfather that was an alchoholic. He died 2 years ago from drinking related illness. aged 56

Yes

Thankfully no. My parents were both very loving and fine examples in daily living.

my father was a very abusive alcoholic. he was ok when he wasnt drinking, but when he was drunk you had to be careful. he would hold my mom up with a knife tellin her that if she left him he would kill her and all of us. he would beat us and sexually abuse me. i have never admitted to that before. i dont like to talk about it. but i dont think parents realize sometimes the effects on children that they have. he actually died when i was 8. he got drunk and commited suicide.

Yes, my mother has been an alcoholic parent since i was born, it led to a quite abusive and unloving childhood.

Yes, my dad. He was an alcoholic before I was born until I was a freshman in high school. He was very abusive to my brother and I.

No, neither of my parents drank alcohol.

My father was. He was very abusive to my Mom, sister, and me. I guess I would include the dogs too, he kicked them. He was physically, mentally, and verbally abusive to everyone around him. Parents divorced and each remarried someone else, I guess I was about 8-10 years old. Of course they (experts) say it is hereditary. I had my share of binges and my sister still does. I made alot of bad choices and was a drug addict/bar fly. I picked all the wrong men until just a few years ago. Married my best friend who is a recovering alcholic (5 yrs sober) and of course me recovering at 5 yrs also.. Life is great when you can see through the clouds.

No but I wish i knew how it was so i could help the many friends of mine i know whos parents are.

Yes, my father. Thankfully he and my mom divorced when I was 5. He was a womanizer, gambler and a huge jerk. He was mean and rude to my mother who is a very smart, accomplished woman. She put up with it until he demanded a divorce. I still believe she's blindly in love with that man which I find so sad because she deserved so much better.

no, and im glad

both of my parents. there was abuse (not towards me) and we were always out of money. i think that is the reason i am not rich right now. i still live with alcoholic parents and it sucks

No but i think my mum is turning into one... vodka most nights, maybe 4 or 5 bottles a week and starting to look very old all of a sudden

Nope. Not that I know of.

Nope. One is only coffee, one only tea. And yet, I drank like a, well, you get the picture....

My father is an alcoholic, or he was until he pickled his brain. He is now in an aged care home at age 65, and cant remember much about his life. We have to keep on filling him in. He is in the early stages of alcoholic induced dementia. He was such a lovely man, a fantastic dad and a great husband to mum, until the alcohol took over his life. He became a mean, nasty, aggressive, abusive person.

In fact I did. My father. It wasn't neccesarily obvious. My mother pointed it out to me. He kept a fifth of Old Charter in the garage, car, and different places. He would change the locations because my mother would pour it out, and sometimes even replace it with colored water. I saw him drunk very few times, but he did drink almost daily. Occasionally my parents would fight. When I was 13, my parents owned a small mom and pop store. One night they fought, and my mother pulled a gun out and shot over his head and through the glass front door.

no. my parenst drank very little, very seldom. They didnt entertain a lot either,. often happy to just be at home., I dont know if money played a big part in that, or rather lack of it!

Nope besides the fact that they didn't take me to church I had some of the best parents in the world.

No, but my friend did. i was there when he was drunk once, and he was really scary. he punched a hole in my friends bedroom wall. the hole i believe, is still there. he ended up going to jail for abusing my friend.

I didn't grow up with am alcoholic father but my dad did and i saw through him the sad and hard emotional effect it had on him and on his sisters. For one all of my dad's sisters ended up with an alcoholic husband or an abusive one. One of them is even an alcoholic herself. But at the same time i have to say that because of the bad example my grandpa gave my dad, my dad was the opposite. Never have i seen my dad drunk or even close to it. And he is a wonderful father. I just feel so horrible at times because even though he is a great father to me and my sisters, i know he will never forget the things he went through as a child with his father. =(

Yes I did-- my stepfather. He was certainly mean when he drank but probably what says it best is that to me he still is and always be the living definition of terror. And when he was not drinking he was a like a black hole of attention-- everything in the family circled around his needs, his stresses, his interests, his views, his everything. The rest of us were expected to not rock the boat. The worst thing you could do in my family was need help or a little understanding-- after all how could you be so selfish? Don't you know how upset your dad is?!!!

An Alchoholic Stepfather.

I've struggled with this question for some time. Then I think that for as long as I've known them they've always had a drink in their hand. I always thought to be an alcoholic, you had to be a staggering fall down drunk but thats not the case. Dad has no appetite what so ever. Food has never been a passion for him. So we know where the gut comes from. In fact, we can't go to a resturant unless they serve beer or wine. Of course mom continues to worship the ground he walks on. (Still can't figure that out) Yes, I grew up with alcoholic parents.

Yes, I feel your pain if you did. My Dad was a very highly functioning professional by day and a raging alcoholic by night. He would stay out some week nights until 1am and come home sloshed. Anyone in his path was in the crosshairs. I struggled for years with his disease and held alot of shame. I finally let the truth set me free. I went to a therapist and got it all worked out...it was his shame to bear not mine. I did not drink with him and I was very respectfully vocal the older I got to tell him that I would not enable him. I can remember as a 5 year old child being awakend by my Dad pushing my Mom up against the wall in the hallway. I ran in between them and tried to separate them yelling "stop it" over and over and crying. I know that my Dad loved me he had a lot of issues that he never delt with and he self medicated himself and just could not and would not ever admit he had a problem until he was diagnosed with advanced metastatic cancer. He quit cold turkey...I think he was scared straight and the last 2 years of his life he never touched a drop. Sad to think he could stop to save his own life and not care about how he affected his 3 children and wife. But, now that he has passed away I am glad that I went to a talk therapist and sorted it all out. I think I would have been a real mess if I had not done the sorting out when he passed. Good luck.

Both of my parents were alcoholic. My dad went to work every day and my mother did too. My mother was a nurse and became addicted to drugs and alcohol. I became a nurse too, and did the same thing. Now I have been in AA for five years, and learning to live life sober. Not everyone that drinks is an alcoholic, and no one can tell you that you are an alcoholic except yourself. Reading the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous is helpful. If you are an alcoholic, you will find yourself relating to a lot in the book.

I didn't, but my boyfriend is and I've seen the damage it can do. I've had conversations with his father that he doesn't remember the next day. His father was supposed to be paying for Ryan's college education, but instead racked up an $8,000 debt in Ryan's name. I sometimes worry if Ryan will end up like his dad, but it's a fear that I find illogical. Ryan doesn't drink all that often and it keeps getting less and less. But, it's a worry, nonetheless.

Yes

My father has been drinking since I can remember. My parents divorced when I was about 18 months old, and I was in my mother's custody. I saw my ather on week-ends, and he was always very abusive; mentally, physically, and emotionally. I never acknowledged his drinking problem, just that he was my father, and he was always angry at me. I never knew why. Growing up I had some experiences that made me realize more and more about who he really is, who my mother is, who I am, and it made me not want to see, speak, or hear him anymore and so I told him just that. I hadn't heard from him for a long time. The next thing I'd heard was that he was going to get treatment, and I was happy. He went for a couple of weeks, maybe a few. I thought he was actually going to keep his word for once. No, I hoped he would more than I thought he would. The next thing I remember happening is him getting arrested. A this point, I was 15 or 16. He's apologized to me a few times, and as sincere as it sounds, I don't think he's really moving forward. But I know that deep down, he wants to stop, but his life just doesn't allow it. He's caught up in what's happened in the past, doesn't want to let go of the memories because they're all he has left. And that's what he has to do. But he won't. And I think that's a major factor in a lot of alcoholics reasons, or triggers in their drinking habits.

Two!! Mother and Stepfather I am not!!!

My mother was a alcoholic and i learnt not to take my friends home in case she was drunk,i think after raising 7 children on her own got to her and she turned to the bottle.My childhood wasnt very happy but she taught me the evils of drink lol and i can honestly say my children have never seen me drunk and they are both 25 years old,and yes it killed her in the end she weighed about 5 stone when she died as she drank more than she ate very sad really she could of had a good life if only she had stopped.

My mom's an alcoholic, a bienge drinker in fact, my biological father is, and so is my brother. I had alot of fun growing up from this. My dad was never around and coul dcare less about me. My mom was fine one day. The next my step father was going from bar to bar looking for her. And for most of my childhood she was gone too. So I had to be raised by relatives. And my brother, you name it he's done it. I'm the only one in my family who can drink responsibly. I haven't had one since Febuary. And I never drink around my kids or drive.

Yes, actually everyone in my family, including myself, are alcoholics, except my mother. I have been sober since Aug 2001 and my father has been sober since June 1985. Some of us are in recovery, AA and Alanon, and some are not. I owe a lot to AA and Alanon, and actually Alateen, where I first started my recovery when I was younger.

no. my parents were just really weird. always walking around stumbling and slurring their words. they kept drinking wated out of flasks too, and they always swerved when they drove. Never alcoholics though.

No, but I have plenty of other alcoholic family members.

yes father

I grew up in an alcholic family and sworw I would never do that to my familybut guess what???? I woke up one day and I was the drunk jerk.. No abuse other than emotional but still....I haven't drank or druged now for almost 25 years.

It's really sad how many people have answered this question. It's such an addictive drug. My biological father is a drunk. i haven't seen him in many years but I hear he is no better than he was when I was a child. I wish him peace of mind but I'm afraid my wishes just aren't enough. I'm lucky enough to have a great stepfather who is my dad.

No. My Mum takes alcoholic very well, and my Dad... well, I've seen worse. He can handle himself. I think being brought up on measured amounts from a small age has a lot to do with how well you cope under the influence.

My dad & my grandpaw, my dad was a loving caring person who had alot of mental scars from his alcohoic dad growing up. His problem became our problem because I spent most of my life trying to look out for him when my mom was gone. He would get drunk after work & fueled with being tired also, passout many times with cigarettes in his fingers. I was fortunate, he didn't phyically abuse me or sexually he was verbally mean sometimes & would love to argue. I was the only one who would argue back, my mom would just try to avoid him but it wouldn't work. I was usally the sponge who took it all so he would let it out of his system then passout when he was in those moods. If he started in on my mom or brother I would try to detour him by saying something to piss him off. Thank god he wouldn't touch me but I knew he would my brother so I tried to get him distracted from my brother. My grandpaw was a mean drunk. He would use medications & booze which made him uncontrollable. God forgive me for saying this but Christmas's became happy times after he died. He got drunk everyday but worse on Christmas because he had a bigger audience. We would spend hours trying to decorate the tree just so he could come staggering in later that night & knock it over. He was such as ass when he was drunk. Don't miss him. My grandma was always stuffing food in my mouth growing up, everytime I went to visit later I figured out I think she was trying to make me fat because I heard he molested one of my cousins. He would call me names all the time. I never could understand why my dad kept dragging us back around him & my mom. If anyone family or no family would say mean crap to my kids I don't go back around them. But my dad always would. He died when I was 9 & I havent missed him since. My dad died when I was 19, I miss him.

Yes. Currently. And Im sorry to say that their isnt a day that it hasnt caused some kind of a problem for me.

Yes. my father. lots of fighting between my mom and dad when i was younger. She gave him the ultimatum though, and he went to AA, got sober, and they're happily married after almost 28 years! I'm proud of my dad.

yep, Coors was his breakfast drink of choice.

my dad. the only time he doesn't drink is if he's at work, and even then he drinks a couple beers.. but my dad has never been the abusive drunk. In fact, the more he drinks, the more loving he is. He probably wasn't a good husband for my mom (she drank occasionally).. but I couldn't ask for a more loving and caring father. He loves his kids more than anything in the world and would do anything for us. I hate the fact that drinks, and I know it is what's going to kill him, and the thought of him not being there for me at my wedding or when I have kids, is really depressing.

no, and im really fortunate. my dad hates drinking and my mom just drinks very little every day, nothing that would change her personality though.

To all of you who have experienced the neglect, the unpredictability, the fear, the disgust, the shame, the embarassment, the hopelessness, the helplessness, the uncertainty of living with an alcoholic parent.....please consider exploring Al-Anon groups. Not thinking about it...is not dealing with it. It has affected you in many ways, some quite subtle. It has imbedded in you an unhealthy vision of what is 'normal'. If you lived with all I mentioned in the first sentence, then that is what was and is 'familiar'...your 'normal'. And, as humans, we are hard-wired biologically to be drawn to that which is familiar. That is why you are more likely than others to have relationships with drunks or addicts, or to become one....we are statistically programmed to repeat that which is familiar. Find an Addictions Centre, as they often have therapy for family members, not just the drunk. Join Al-Anon...explore how your childhood has fundamentally changed you...and what you can do to release that pattern and live a healthy life yourself, with healthy relationships.

An alcoholic stepfather who could be abusive on occasion.

nope

For 10 years of my life.

You can re-phrase that question because im still growing up with it......

Yes. Did I answer this alchoholic question or another one? Well excuse if this is a repeat. I am currently growing up with an alchoholic mother. Shes slowly turning my dad into one too. Im trying to get them to stop, but with absolutely no progress. If I get involved, someone ends up punching a hole through a wall, throwing a carton of eggs at someone else, blaming me for the drinking, etc. Usually Im just accused of plotting a conspiracy against her (she gets paraniod when drunk). I dont know any more.

Yes he was a pastor and he did drugs also. He went into rehab so many times came out and had everyone thinking that he changed but he truly had an addiction. It hurt as a child to see him steal from his jobs to support his habit take our toys to support his habit and in the long run I feel as though I suffered but really he suffered more just as someone else has stated parents don't really the stress and state of depression you can bring a child into just by what your lifestyle is. Parents should be better examples but their not perfect no one is!!!

Yes. My mom drank all of my young life. She was very abusive during that time and it was my "job" to protect my brother and dad. She got sober and stayed sober for 18 years... most of which she and I had no relationship outside of the occasional attempt at civality that ended in an argument each time. Last year she picked up the bottle again. I had tried to visit with her... get her back in to treatment... let her know I forgave her unconditionally and loved her. Just wanted her to get sober so she could enjoy the grandchildren I wouldn't allow to be influenced by her drinking. It wasn't enough. She died in April of a massive GI bleed... directly related to her drinking. I'm not sure why I'm so devasted. My brother and her husband seem to be handling it ok... mom's in a better place... free of her addiction. I, on the other hand, am a mess. While I know they speak the truth... I just can't seem to get past her death. Maybe it's because Hope died with her. Hope that maybe I'd finally have the mom I always wanted. Hope that she'd be a grandmother to my kids. Hope that she and I could have a relationship... the one my brother got to experience while she was sober. I don't know. I just know I'm leaving in the morning to box up her house and it's all I can do to go through the motions. It's funny... she was an alcoholic. An abusive and often irrational and toxic mother. I couldn't make her stop... her sobriety was not my responsiblity... she made a mess of her life and that wasn't my fault... I did the best I could... mantras, all of them. Mantras I've used to get by for the last 20 years. None of them make it hurt any less. She was my mom. Why did she have to die? Why couldn't she get it together? Why wasn't I more supportive, less condemning? Why didn't I just go drag her butt back here and force her in to detox? Why did I leave her alone? Why wasn't she ever able to love me as much as my brother? Why didn't she have a will or life insurance? Why hasn't she given me some sign that she's ok? Why was I so freaking insignificant? Why does no one else seem to be having so much trouble dealing with this? Why did we finally get a relationship where we could tell each other we loved each other... and then she's gone? Would I rather have a drunk mom than no mom? She only ever needed me when she was drinking. When she was sober... it was all about my brother and I was just the one that "couldn't let go of the past".

My mother. She would hide her wine bottles and take small sips out of them all day long. She would act stupid in front of my friends, etc. and I was always so embarrassed. Unfortunately, she died from throat cancer which I believe, in part, her alcoholism contributed to it.

Yes my abusive father was a alcoholic

Alcoholic father who was very abusive in every way. I don't remember crying when he died.

Yes my dad was an alcoholic and I grew up to be one. I had 13 years of sobriety and now only drink very infrequently (although i Know I shouldn't at all). My dad used to beat me and my mom to the point where he broke her bones, broke all the windows in our house, then she finally left him. I have a difficult time now at 46 finding a man who doesn't abuse me either verbally or emotionally (I gave up men that beat me physically when I was in my 20's). It's hard to believe that there are kind, loving men out there since all I ever had in my childhood was alcoholic uncles and a father.

I grew up in a Godly home.

Thanks to God- no.But when I got married I could not understand my husband was an alcoholic, because I had no expeirience about it. Devorced for a long time

Up until I was six my father has a very heavy drinker, normally started with 3 or 4 beers in the morning and went onto scotch in the afternoon. He drank himself to death when I was six, so I don't really know if thats 'growing up' with him. I did however have a drug addict mother, so I believe that makes up for it.

no, neither of my parents drank very much

Dont know I never took a sip of either mum or dad...

no but my mom smokes pot a ton she never remembers anything example: last night she gave me her heating pad bacause my back was hurting and i slept with it under my back this morning she yells up the stairs "are you ok?" im like yeah why and she asked if i took her heating pad and why.

No but I became an alcoholic parent, and thank god for myself and my kids, I grew up and out of that stage.

My Dad was a Bad Drunk. We both got sober down the Line and became best friends.We both had 20 years sober together before he was taken suddenly from us.

No, I'm 22 and my brother is 18, yet for some reason, my parents still feel like they have to sneak around with alcohol.

Yes, my father is an alcoholic.

My stepdad was alcoholic (my mom got with him when I was 11, he didn't manage to quit drinking until I was 17, so quite a few years I had to deal with it.) Generally he'd do about a 24 of beer _per day_ plus shots in the evening. He was constantly drunk... belligerent, aggressive, and verbally abusive. Used to break stuff a lot. It sucked, and is one of the reasons I'm going to school to become an addictions counselor.

my real dad is a big time alcoholic and that is why i dont talk or speak to the loser

i dont know my real dad. but my step dad is an acholoic and he still is today. i remember being scared of him when i was little, because he tried killing my mom little sister and little brother and i.

I grew up with an alcoholic father, and had a horrific childhood. I can't imagine any person having both a mother and father as alcoholics. Double everything! Alcoholism is passed down, and I am a recovering alcoholic.

Yes, but when I was 10 he stopped for his family!!

My dad was an alcoholic, but luckily I did not grow up with him.

My father was an alcoholic. He used to beat my mom. She told me she decided to leave him when I crawled up in her lap to protect her from him. She decided to take him back when I was 15, only then, not only was he an alcoholic, he was also addicted to crystal meth. He ended up leaving us about 6 months later, probably for the best. Mom never made the best decisions, and when she did, it was usually late. Better late than never, though....I guess.

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Yes my father was and I never knew my real mother , though I heard she was bad

Yes. I am still dealing with it. My mom is a hopeless drunk at this point. My sister is pregnant with her first child, and I am getting married in 5 months, and she won't be dried out long enough to have any involvement in our lives. Nothing is more important to her than alcohol. My dad is starting the process of separating from her, but there will be a lot of guilt on both sides when she dies, which I am convinced will happen quickly because of how far gone she is. I want to let go of the whole thing and move on with my life. I worry every time I have a drink that I am turning into her somehow. She always had a filthy temper, even before the drinking became a big issue, but I used to love her. She's not even my mom anymore, I have a hard time feeling any connection with whatever it is that ate my mother alive.

TWO of them! My mom has been sober now for 7 years and my dad has probably almost a year...

Didn't think my Dad had a problem till I was about 16 when I heard him popping open beer cans in the bathroom in the morning before work. Never beat us but he sure made us feel like a piece of shit. We were probably better off than alot of kids in my generation.