A Prayer For The Sober - My Life With An Alcoholic

An adult child of an alcoholic shares her experience on living with an abusive alcoholic father.
Alcohol is terror!
Alcoholics are terror too!
Alcoholism is terror!
But living with ALL of them is the worst terror of all!

You're always scared to go home, because you don't know what the hell is going to happen!
Leaving home isn't all that great either, because you don't know what the hell you're going to come home to.

If only alcoholics could see themselves through the eyes of their loved ones, then I bet you your bottom dollar they wouldn't dream of touching another drop of that poison.

For most people,
their savior,
their God,
the being in which they pray to is Jesus Christ.

But for me, an adult child of an alcoholic,
my savior,
my God,
the being in which I pray to is Alcoholics Anonymous.

I pray to my God every night silently begging for the following things:
I ask my God for the courage and the strength to get through another day with my alcoholic.
I ask my God to help convince my alcoholic to stop drinking.
I ask my God to help convince my alcoholic to get some help before he harms himself or worse, someone else.

Please God, oh please!
Hear my plea!
And this plea is not only for me.
God, this is a plea for this nightmare to be over!
PLEASE GOD GRANT MY PRAYER FOR THE SOBER.

Tina "Enlightenment" Peden
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Read Comments (2) 
Alcoholics:
Scares the hell out of me! I don't want anything to do with them!
Make me so damn mad! I'd like to give them all a good kick in the ass!
Make me want to break down and cry. Please help them!
Confuse me. I don't understand people like that.
Worry me. I walk around on eggshells around them.
Are stupid and they disgust me!
Need lots of love and understanding.
Are weak and pathetic! They need to have more self-control!
Are nice people, but have a serious disease which impairs their judgment.
Should be sent directly to jail not rehab! I'm tired of these morons hurting people and getting away with it!
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