In the “other laundry list” on the Adult Children of Alcoholics Anonymous website, they list the following trait that many of us struggle is: “We act as if we are nothing like the dependent people who raised us.”

I have seen time and time again people who grew up in alcoholic/dysfunctional families grow older and put the past behind them and think that everything is all okay. We struggle as kids, grow up and promise that we’ll be better, and then go through life as though everything is fine.