Living With Alcoholism: How does alcoholism affect other family members?

Writing about living with alcoholism was an easy task for me. Growing up surrounded by alcohol, I learned to drink or tolerate alcohol at an early age. Learning how to handle alcohol was and easy task as well. I remember seen the drunk faces of everyone in my family but my oldest sister. Looking around and seen my father, mother, brothers, cousins, friends, and neighbors, all laughing, dancing, drinking beer or Bacardi rum. I am …

…I look back at my life and I don't remember lots of things, a lot of years have been erases from my memory. I hope that the circle never begins for my children. I hope that I did not pass this sickness to them. Living with alcoholism has a negative long lasting effect in everyone's life. Only a few can break the shackles on bondage and escape to freedom to really start living once again.