Blowing Rock Master! wrote:
I never said alcohol doesn't alter behavior. You're showing an unwillingness to listen to the truth.
Your parents weren't drunk ALL the time. Alcohol doesn't alter your behavior when it's not in your system. When they were sober they made a decision to take the first drink that leads to a bout of drunkenness. They did this repeatedly. They knew what would happen and they didn't care, they went ahead and did it anyway.
They were abusive because they kept deciding to do the thing that would make them abusive. It's not the alcohol's fault. It's your parents fault.
Like i said, they had addictive personalities, and i mention in my post that i blame them for their addictions,, but still the substance they were addicted altered their personalities to abusiveness, if they were addicted to diet coke they would be likely fat unhealthy and have diabetes and i could blame their addiction for that too but they would not be abusive, but the alcohol or other personality altering substance is to blame for the persons change to abusiveness, and can cause this in a person. Yes they are addictive people and they consciously made the decision to drink but they often did not believe that they were abusive as drunks they did not know the consequences, oh you have a bruise? you fell. I didnt do that.