Dear Donko
I don’t know how old you are but you are showing an amazing maturity.
In this forum we hear all the time how members didn’t confront their CG and accepted excuses and indefinable explanations for poor behaviour, inexplicable losses of money, possibly lies and evasions because they wanted to hear that all was well. No daughter/father, husband/wife, brother/sister relationship welcomes the news that an addiction is causing chaos in their lives – which is why active deception on one hand and self-deception on the other succeeds in creating the cycle that causes so much damage. Your story would have been very different if your father had been in that cycle and nobody had challenged him.
I admire your strength because I know how hard this has been for you. I am just so pleased that your concerns appear to be unfounded. You have never said you knew your father definitely had a problem; you have wanted to hear he was ok and now you have.
I wish you well with your University course.
Thank you for coming back with this update when you need not have done so – you are very special and I am very, very glad that I have had the pleasure of ‘knowing’ you for a moment in time.
Velvet
