Family Addiction

A friend of mine has a daughter who is dealing with family addiction. Not only does she come from grandparents and parents who have their own addictions, she struggles with an addiction herself and now has a child fighting an addiction.

The same situation exists in my family and more importantly, my life. It’s one of the reasons I do my best to not hold back secrets or feeling as both can destroy a person’s serenity and sobriety.

To help me understand this process—this generational disease—the personal illness of addiction, I started attending Al-Anon groups in the late 80s. Furthermore I started going to AA groups when I had a drinking problem crop up while I was seperated from my Bride.

The two best pieces of advice I was given—and yes, it is only advice as no one will force you to do anything you do or don’t want to do—is this: “Let go and let God,” and “Keep coming back, it works.”