Dear Friends,
Recently, I have been dealing with my mother and her addictions. Now, if you have known me for a long time, this was a sore subject. I am recently talking about it because she’s finally getting help for it. My mother is an alcoholic and former drug addict. Thank god, I am not that. I have learned to never be addicted to anything like that. My mother has been living with my girlfriend and I since the beginning of the year. My mother and I have had our differences but I love her. Her sins and addictions made me a better person because she needed me. My mother raised me to be able to live in this world without help. Her addictions are based on many things. Things I can only speculate on. My mother has been doing drugs since I was young but the drinking was recent.
So what does a son do to help a mother who’s going through this? I don’t know but it is hard because of some people in my life that does not want to help me. This is why I tend to things alone. I feel that if someone is in your life and they want to be in your life they need to help out. I keep forgetting that people are selfish these days. I know how to deal with my mom as a former drug user but not as an alcoholic. As I try to live life, I have to be the son to a mother that needs me.
My mother has been going to meetings but I have not got help to deal with this. That will change real soon. I guess not only it is time to get help to help my mother but to be around people that can relate to me. I use to say people could not deal with what I deal with but there are people that can deal with what I deal with. It is time to not only seek help for myself but also seek out people who live with an addict and how they cope with it. I guess for now, it is time to come out of the darkness and into the light.
Eugene Chandler III
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