Hello, this is my first post to forum and it’s taken more than 12 addiction years to get to now. I have two adult sons and both have addictive personalities albeit one for the thrill-seeking and the other to self medicate but I guess the root of the addiction is similar. Their father and grandfather on that side both had addictive personalities too – of the thrill-seeking kind.
I split with father about 18 years ago and have remarried. I feel guilty and often wonder if I had stuck with it if things might have gone differently. Anyway I have a ‘heroin/crackhead’, his description, son and a compulsive gambler who regularly gets into debt. The drug affected son is homeless in London despite several 100+ day attempts to get better and the gambler has a partner and two young children, but continues to risk so much for gambling. I’ve tried to support them both in so many ways – tough, supportive, mentor, financially and more but my living nightmare continues. I don’t expect solutions as I know only they can provide them but I wonder if anyone else has a similar story to me? Just as I’ve read many times on other posts, this is like living a never-ending grief.
Double Trouble
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