Because their first and most important relationship taught that the people they love will hurt them and be terrifyingly unpredictable, most adult children of alcoholics are terrified of becoming close to another person.
You may have gotten strong messages in your childhood that it wasn’t safe to feel.
1. Toxic parents
Perfect parents
Inadequate parents
Controllers
Alcoholics
Verbal abusers
Physical abusers
Sexual abusers
Family system
2. Reclaiming your life
You don’t have to forgive
I’m a grown up. Why don’t I feel like one?
The beginning of self-definition
Who’s really responsible
Confrontation: the road to independence
Healing the incest wound
Breaking the cycle
Letting go of the struggle
