Later, once I joined Al-Anon, when my son was born, I realized alcoholism is a disease and she just didn’t have any control over it.īut in spite of the difficulties growing up with an alcoholic parent, in spite of the difficulties of having really young parents, the thing I learned from my mother was the courage to change. I didn’t understand why anybody who had two kids would do something like that. And there was a suicide attempt when I was 14. She was hung over and crying and I remember going outside, walking around the car and seeing the whole front end bashed in, but I didn’t see any blood. It was a Saturday morning and she woke me up.
Love you.” Her response was always so exaggerated, so enormous in terms of intensity that it made me feel like it was the most extraordinary thing she’d ever had in her life. But whatever it was, my mother never said, “Thank you sweetie. Growing up, I would make my mother stuff 24/7 - things like halter tops and macramé accessories back in the day, all of which she wore proudly, or just something simple like a card. But for some reason, it just wasn’t registering, I think because she’d come up with this celebratory party around popcorn and had created something extraordinary. Yes, I could open the refridge and see nothing in there. We got all excited and crazy and didn’t think twice about not having enough food. I’m sure she was thinking, “OK, what am I going to do? How do I camouflage this from my children? I’ve got to come up with a plan.” So she said, “Oh my God, we’re going to have a party! And we’re going to make popcorn! And we get to watch a movie!” My mother once told me how she came home from work one day and the only food we had in the house was popcorn.
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