I'll Stay With Daddy: Surviving Divorce & Growing Up with an Alcoholic Parent

Today's episode is about the night my mom left, a latchkey childhood, an alcoholic stepmother, and learning to read the room before I could read a book.

Topics Covered

• The night my mom left
• Growing up as a latchkey kid
• Seeing my mom only every other weekend
• Living with an alcoholic stepmother
• The constant fear, anxiety, and instability of home life

Resources

• Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families — adultchildren.org
• Al-Anon/Alateen — al-anon.org
• It Will Never Happen to Me by Claudia Black
• Between Two Worlds by Elizabeth Marquardt
• Running on Empty by Jonice Webb
• Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline — 1-800-422-4453
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson