In my memories, my relationship with my father was always tempestuous. I am the third (middle) of his five offspring, the second of three boys. Dad was a drunk. I used to say he was an alcoholic, but it always felt like I was trying to prettify something that wasn’t pretty and didn’t deserve the…
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The Google online dictionary has one definition of relationship as: “a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)”. Sadly, instead of a relationship, too many of us live in something that is more like a “relation-dinghy”! (A dinghy is a small, open rowboat or inflatable raft.) At the first heavy weather or big…
Growing up I think I always felt a little starved for attention. In my family there were five children and I was the middle (older brother, older sister, me, younger sister, younger brother). My Dad was an alcoholic, which kept a lot of everyone’s attention on him, and on the drama that was my parents’…
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