Oh, the joys of growing up in an alcoholic family. Constantly taking guage of the surrounding relational temperature in order to determine the best tactic to keep things stable.
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The alcoholism resulted in my "adultification" at a very early age. With an underlying way-out-of-proportion sense of responsibility for the people around me and the desire to "protect" them from additional hurt, I self-insulated in order not to "impose" on others.
