You might feel guilt from what happened in your childhood home. An alcoholic or dysfunctional parent caused all sorts of chaos in your family and surviving that may bring up all sorts of emotions and feelings.

Guilt might be one of them.

Maybe you thought you could save or help someone in your family.

Dysfunctional and alcoholic families love guilt. Guilt is a way to control you or for a way for you to control someone else. Do you use guilt to get your way? Or does someone use guilt to make you do something for them?

The work that we need to do each day is to separate ourselves from someone else’s problems. Their problems are not ours. We are not responsible to prop someone up, to fix someone, or to save someone.

We are responsible for ourselves.