- Joined
- Jun 17, 2016
Nick is a drunk, and that’s what drunks look like. Not cancer.BUT his personal definition of addiction is when it adversely affects one's job or family and that is DEF NOT HIM. He was being genuine.
He thinks because he’s functioning and paying bills that he’s not hurting his kids. He’s wrong. Ask any kid who grew up with “functioning” alcoholic parents and see if they feel unaffected. You may have food and clothes and aren’t homeless, but your life as a kid revolves around parents alcohol, there is drunk driving, anger, unpredictability, strange behavior, loss of sleep, seeing the people you rely on constantly out of control. Nick might hit on a teenage friend which he wouldn't do without booze. He might hit on his daughter which he wouldn’t do without booze. Add to that the streams and the fact that all their friends can see him behave this way, and his kids are definitely hurt by it. When they are old enough they might mention it and will be put down for noticing. They become the problem, not the drinking. Drinking will eventually take over everything, even if poverty isn’t in the mix.
He’s ruining their sense of safety and security and will not recognize it until he stops drinking, and he’ll probably never stop drinking