Susan Stafford
“…my step-father… was an abusive alcoholic who would chase me and my family down with an axe until I was holding for my dear life on the roof of my house… Due to living with an alcoholic, our lives were also in constant chaotic disaster.”
Lisa Walker
“…me and my mother moved back to Georgia where she married my violent alcoholic stepfather when I was three years old… I will never forget the night that my stepfather came home drinking and beat my mother in the stomach. He slammed me against the wall when I tried to make him stop and he left.”
Joe Robison (1)
“Listen, maybe someone, somewhere, at sometime will read this, who is standing in the same shoes I used to walk in. My father died at the age of 32, with cirrhosis of the liver, from a life of acute alcoholism. I was ten years old… I became very rebellious against family AND God.”
Debra McFarland
“My father had been in the hospital for some time. He had cirrhosis of the liver due to alcohol abuse, though I didn’t know it until later on in life. Every day after high school, I would go to the hospital and visit him. I loved him so much.”
Shanon Elisha
“I had observed how the root of bitterness had defiled my parent's relationship. Their relationship was strained because of marital unfaithfulness and alcohol which both of them had used to escape from their own consciences.”
Gail Owens
“My Home life was unstable My Parent’s were alcoholics… at the age of 15, I started to really question the meaning of life; I started praying quite a lot; as by this time I had developed a drink problem and on the way to becoming an alcoholic.”
Stan Borley
“He was a union leader, an alcoholic as well as a workaholic and wasn’t around much when I was a child… I was finally humbled enough to try Alcoholics Anonymous. After all, my late father had been in the program and it had worked for him.”
Anita
“When my father was home from work and the business trips he took, fear entered with the abuse of alcohol and his apparent stress. I think this fear drove me to search for comfort elsewhere.”
David Fenwick
“Throughout my life I have had many family issues, and I have not necessarily had it easy. My dad has always had drinking problems, mom has been in bad marriages, and we've struggled to make it on a daily basis.”
Ricardo Santana
“My Mother was into drugs and alcohol… That evening they both accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior! My mother was set free from alcohol and drug addiction.”