Awareness

In a family with dependencies, life revolves around the substance or process of choice.

Their life revolves around their dependency. 

As the their relationship with their dependency grows, all other relationships shrink.

There I was sitting in her office, the tears falling like rain.

The counsellor had just asked me about my childhood. I said ‘Mum was a big drinker’. Then I couldn’t stop crying.

I felt so relieved telling someone who understood what that meant.

A dysfunctional family is one that doesn’t work as well as it could. Often, members of the family think they are working together but they are really working against each other.