Alcoholism or alcohol-use disorder is considered by many people to be a hereditary trait. Some scientific studies suggest that there is a gene for alcoholism. Some scientists and psychologists are convinced that addictive behaviors are traced back to early childhood trauma, neglect, and the effect that both have on our developing brain. Others suggest that addiction is based primarily on the use of substances designed to addict. If you drink often enough you will become addicted. No matter what your family history of addiction.
My 19-year-old daughter is getting ready to leave for University. She came home from a full-on day recently and had a sort of exhausted, on the verge of tears, look about her. The kind of look that only comes after a day that started in the wee hours and rolled relentlessly on with issue after issue needing attention. It was a very adult sort of day and a little voice in the back of my mind almost jumped out and offered her a glass of wine. An adult solution to the stress of life.
That would be a normal reaction for many people and certainly, it would have been for me five years ago, but I stopped drinking when my daughter was 15. One of the many reasons that I stopped drinking and stayed stopped was that I finally accepted that, in my behavior every day, I was teaching my kids that wine was the solution to all of life’s ups and downs. If they never saw me wind down in the evening without a drink how would they learn a different way to be. Coming from a family with a history of addiction that was the only solution that I had learned.
I made a choice to rewrite the narrative in my family by finally modeling behavior that did not include drinking.
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― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
