Thank you. This is a great article. Some of the links no longer work but what you provided was enough for me to get a toe-hold on other sites that may help.

I'm an adult child of alcoholics. And I ended up marrying someone just like me. Thankfully, and luckily, we both are aware of the devastation and pain that alcoholism creates in families and we are both dedicated to raising our children alcohol-free. I understand it's a very serious disease. I've never been a serious drinker ~ rarely do I drink at all! But I still feel the vacuum that is the urge to drink. It's not hard to resist because I believe my priorities are in line but it's learning to deal with what alcoholism did to me as a child that I'm needing to recover from. Incidentally, my mom has never stopped drinking for a day and my step-father, thank goodness, has long since passed on.

No, i'm not callous, I'm real ~ alcohol does nasty things to people for which they never feel regret or remorse for.

Thanks again for the great article.