2007-12-29 14:47:13 · 8 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My parents thought drinking and smoking were more important than spending time with their children and paying the bills. Did it change who I might have become I'm not sure. If I had decent parents who didn't smoke or drink would I have become an alcoholic and a smoker? I learned from their mistakes and I don't smoke but drink occasionally.
2007-12-29 14:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean my stepfather drinking and beating the crap out of me all the time, then yes. But I think all the drugs he and my mother did probably were worse than the drinking.
However, I don't care if it did make me a different person. I happen to like who I am. Why sit around and lament on "who I could have been?" All of our paths are changed by different circumstances - who's to say that one path is better or worse than what might have happened? It is just different.
2007-12-29 22:51:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but not the way some may think. I see so much drinking that the thought of alcohol makes me sick. I really won't ever drink any of it. I see how it really can distort the mind and ruin lives.
2007-12-29 22:50:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gosh yes! My father was an alcoholic, and so was his father, and so on. I also inherited the "addictive" gene, and so did one o9f my sons. It's sad really. BUT--- I've found peace, understanding, and forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
2007-12-30 00:32:00 · answer #4 · answered by Heather B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My kids dad drank alot, and I know it has affected them, but they have a long life ahead of them. God will intervene and bring healing, deliverance and they will become what God has designed them to be.
2007-12-29 22:53:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it did, contact Adult Children of Alcoholics and/or Alateen.
2007-12-29 22:59:18 · answer #6 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Might have become? What you might have become hasn't happened yet.
2007-12-29 22:50:13 · answer #7 · answered by Tim O 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely has affected who I am.
2007-12-29 22:53:13 · answer #8 · answered by budleit2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋