How has alcoholism or other addictions impacted your life and relationships?

Question by Mackie: How has alcoholism or other addictions impacted your life and relationships?
Are you or someone you know addicted to alcohol or drugs? How has your relationship changed or stayed the same because of this person’s addiction? How do you feel around this person? Have you lost or gained any respect for this person? What bothers you most about people with addictions?

Best answer:

Answer by Curtis B
My father was an alcoholic. I love him, and I know he loved me, but while his addiction didn’t effect my relationship with him, it did effect his relationship with everyone else. And his death, while I was deployed to Iraq two years ago, hit me really hard. His health went downhill really fast. But he, like a lot of addicts, was using drink to chase other demons away, which I think is the reason why I can drink, and I may want to drink, but I don’t need to drink, because I don’t have issues like that.

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