Print 🖨 PDF 📄 eBook 📱Where do I begin with this subject?… I have so much to write. I begin with myself; to share how drinking alcohol – the true picture – affected my family and myself from childhood and throughout our lives. I want to show the true picture, the ripple effect alcohol had on all my family and relationships, even though I myself did not get addicted to alcohol. As a child, I remember feeling a cold house with a cold atmosphere. We did have electricity in the house but no real warmth or love – for me as a child, this was the most damaging; and how my parents became unrecognisable with the abuse of alcohol, and how very unsafe I felt. Through the eyes of a child, when my parents drank alcohol they started to change and behave differently; they no longer felt like my parents and this was a very scary experience as their faces started to distort. And as they drank more and more alcohol their voices changed, they became very loud and aggressive. It was like at any stage, depending on when they felt like drinking, I would no longer have my parents. ...