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    Talking Tell me about your Alcoholic Relatives

    The current active drunks in my family are my real dad and my full blooded sister

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    Quote Originally Posted by chloe View Post
    The current active drunks in my family are my real dad and my full blooded sister
    I haven't lived with an alcoholic since I left home at 18. Prior to that I was surrounded by them. Mother, father, stepfather, uncle, grandparents....these people lived at the local bar, played pool, darts, etc....and rarely came home before 2 AM .....which used to be closing time here.

    My grandmother was a bootlegger and I had relatives that made moonshine....so it was just considered another thing our family did. They smoked, drank, played dominoes, cards, and beat the crap out of each other if they weren't too drunk to stand up.

    My siblings decided to do the drug scene instead.......
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    Yeah my dad and sister live in las vegas, they are drunk all the time. My dad used to sell dope, and when he wasn't selling dope he was a hair dresser LOL. I haven't talked to either of them for years.

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    Decades and decades ago, way back in the early 1940's, my hubs' grandmother and his dad, opened and operated a bar. It stayed in business until about 12 years ago after he passed away it then closed.

    Years before then, they had both been heavy duty over the top drinkers. Easy access since they owned the bar. That was long before I ever entered the picture. And many years before that, they had both stopped drinking. From what I'm told, they were both very boistrous and he was quite abusive and screwed anything he could get ahold of. Needless to say, his first marriage broke up as she couldn't handlle the abuse and drunkeness all the time. I didn't know them then.

    But my hubs grandma was a peach as far as I'm concerned. She had long since been sobber and I actually met her before I did my hubs. I was going to cosmetology school and she had been a customer. Just so happened she got stuck with me doing her hair. I loved that woman. She would've done anything for me and mine had she lived. She was to us what her son never was. She had nothing but love and chuckles for us. While he had always held grudges for my hubs on stupid mistakes he'd made as a teenager. He never produced any warmth for us and was always indifferent.

    Anyway, I can see her in Heaven with my son and my parents, all waiting for me and mine to join them. By the same token, I can see my father in law burning in hell for all the misdeeds and very poor behaviors he displayed throughout his life. He was a very self centered man that loved material goods more than he did his family.....or at least his first family.....
    "Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground." Crosby, Stills and Nash......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Binky View Post
    Decades and decades ago, way back in the early 1940's, my hubs' grandmother and his dad, opened and operated a bar. It stayed in business until about 12 years ago after he passed away it then closed.

    Years before then, they had both been heavy duty over the top drinkers. Easy access since they owned the bar. That was long before I ever entered the picture. And many years before that, they had both stopped drinking. From what I'm told, they were both very boistrous and he was quite abusive and screwed anything he could get ahold of. Needless to say, his first marriage broke up as she couldn't handlle the abuse and drunkeness all the time. I didn't know them then.

    But my hubs grandma was a peach as far as I'm concerned. She had long since been sobber and I actually met her before I did my hubs. I was going to cosmetology school and she had been a customer. Just so happened she got stuck with me doing her hair. I loved that woman. She would've done anything for me and mine had she lived. She was to us what her son never was. She had nothing but love and chuckles for us. While he had always held grudges for my hubs on stupid mistakes he'd made as a teenager. He never produced any warmth for us and was always indifferent.

    Anyway, I can see her in Heaven with my son and my parents, all waiting for me and mine to join them. By the same token, I can see my father in law burning in hell for all the misdeeds and very poor behaviors he displayed throughout his life. He was a very self centered man that loved material goods more than he did his family.....or at least his first family.....
    Yeah alcoholics tend to be centered on one thing

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    Don't have any.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    Don't have any.

    your lucky

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    My mom is German, and there was heavy alcohol use among her family. So that is one of the few vices her and my dad never indulged in.
    My sister and her husband drink, but never to excess.

    Now my friend Sharon, that is another story. You haven't lived life until you have been drunk dialed from Australia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gabosaurus View Post
    My mom is German, and there was heavy alcohol use among her family. So that is one of the few vices her and my dad never indulged in.
    My sister and her husband drink, but never to excess.

    Now my friend Sharon, that is another story. You haven't lived life until you have been drunk dialed from Australia.

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    I'm on vacation this week with my family and there is this member who has done nothing but sit on the beach and guzzle massive amounts of beer.

    ... wait, that's me.

    Anyway, how do you define alcoholic? Like racist, it's a very subjective term.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sweetchuck View Post
    I'm on vacation this week with my family and there is this member who has done nothing but sit on the beach and guzzle massive amounts of beer.

    ... wait, that's me.

    Anyway, how do you define alcoholic? Like racist, it's a very subjective term.
    ok

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    Quote Originally Posted by chloe View Post
    ok
    Ok... what?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sweetchuck View Post
    how do you define alcoholic? Like racist, it's a very subjective term.
    Quote Originally Posted by Sweetchuck View Post
    Ok... what?
    make "ok" part of your collection of subjective terms

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    Quote Originally Posted by chloe View Post
    make "ok" part of your collection of subjective terms
    Not sure I'm following you.

    I was expecting a response to the question I presented but just got "ok" as a reply. Maybe it's just me, but when someone presents a question to me about a topic I presented, I tend to present a clear and concise reply to that question.

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    I think she means ok as in 'ok, whatever'. Generally, it's been my experience that addicts can justify their behavior to themselves pretty good, and generally disagree with the overall definition of 'addict' because they can't identify with it, yet.

    What do YOU mean by subjective?

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