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Laundry List of Adult Children of Alcoholics

Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs

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The Laundry List for Adult Children of Alcoholics

We are frightened by angry people and any personal criticism. We either became alcoholics, marry them or find another compulsive personality such as a workaholic to fulfill our sick abandonment needs. So if you are the adult child of an alcoholic, you feel abandoned. You end up replaying the abandonment issue in future relationships. Do not have the life skills to look within to deal with your emotions. Why? Because you were taught as a child, your emotions were invalid. There was no one conditioning you to look within and that's not your fault.

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