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What Does This Day Have In Store For Me?
by Kathleen S. | Dec 1, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
What does this day have in store for me? Waking up, I remember how it felt to wake up on a birthday, when I was just five or six. A happy occasion. All at once, I may also remember many sad times, a flood of memories when I was disappointed because it turned out that...![How Ironic](https://adultchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/image1-13-1080x675.jpg)
How Ironic
by Anonymous | Nov 1, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
Mother: “I would have had an abortion if I had known.” (You are not supposed to be here.) Father (after saying I will come home if he promises not to hit me): “I will not be blackmailed.” (Do not forget. You are not supposed to be here.) Husband: “No one wants to hear...![Vegetable Garden](https://adultchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/image1-14-1080x675.jpg)
Vegetable Garden
by Tamara P. | Nov 1, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
(This is about a person and a learning experience which offered me comfort, calmness, and life skills.) Comfort was very difficult to find in my mother's house. For just the two of us were living there most of the time, it always felt chaotic and tense. I cannot...![Finding A Higher Power, Or I How I Discovered Control](https://adultchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/image1-3-1080x675.jpg)
Finding A Higher Power, Or I How I Discovered Control
by Harper O. | Oct 15, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
Blind faith has always sounded ridiculous to me. After all, a part of why I have been Pagan for over 30 years was because I did not just accept things at face value. I needed to know more. So I did not really have any problem “recognizing” my Higher Power. It was the...![The ACA “Laundry List” Describes Compliant Adult Children, Not Exiles Or Rebels](https://adultchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/image2-1080x675.jpg)
The ACA “Laundry List” Describes Compliant Adult Children, Not Exiles Or Rebels
by Kathleen S. | Oct 15, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery
Only Trait 4 specifies substance abuse, as a way to cope. Addict/Alcoholic adult children do share the feelings—fears—in the traits, but they acted out as targets of abuse. I believe lumping defiant behaviors into the “Other Laundry List” isn’t satisfactory. All...Submission Policy
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