The day I stopped being ashamed that my mother drinks

Relatives abusing alcohol, it is customary to be shy. Do not mention them in conversations with friends, carefully bypassing the uncomfortable topic, if possible not to appear together in public … It is difficult to carry this load, and sooner or later he can break us. Our reader is sure: this is what would have happened to her, she would not make

an important decision one day.

When I graduated from school, everyone already knew that my mother was drinking. The director called me to her to talk about this, the neighbor reported me for my mother’s behavior. It began with the fact that my mother, walking with the dog, bought a bottle of beer, then two. She had new friends, she disappeared from the house for several days, the very drunk returned. I was terribly shy about her.

I studied in the first year of the university when everything changed. Once I was talking near the entrance with friends. There was among them a boy that I liked then. And suddenly my mother appears: drunk, wet, managed to lie somewhere … She could not even get into the intercom with a key!

I moved away from my friends to help mom open the door. And apparently, the cup of my shame was overflowing. I felt that I myself had nothing to be ashamed! First, I do not suffer from alcoholism. Secondly, almost everyone in the family drinks. Not mom, so dad, grandfather or sister. Just talking about it is not customary.

I felt great relief. Now there was no need to hide anything from others. I remember, she said to mom after that: “If you are not ashamed to drink, then I should not be ashamed to talk about it. I will not be shy of your actions “.