My brother and I are both three years sober but we can't talk about our dad's drinking without one of us shutting down or getting defensive about how we each survived that house. We love each other but there's this gulf between our versions of the same story and I don't know how to bridge it without losing the progress we've both made.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who survived the same addiction-affected childhood are discovering that healing individually doesn't automatically heal the space between them.
“Where Are You with The grief of addiction — losing yourself and others?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.