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Were You A "Disappearing Child?" You may be an adult walking around carrying the baggage of the "disappearing child." Read this and learn how children from dysfunctional homes led by parents who are either alcoholics and/or addicts or codependents who enabled alcoholics and other addicts. Here you will also learn where there is help whether you are on the addiction side of the equation or the codependent side. There is help, and it is easily available...for free! The Battle of the Sexes When the Man's Wife is an Alcoholic Women are drinking more today than either their mothers or their grandmothers. Read this for irrefutable documentation to this fact. Then read on to see if you see yourself described as either an alcoholic wife or a codependent enabling husband. Learn how being a REAL MAN today in America sets you up to play this role. If the shoe fits, learn where there is free help right in your own community. The lives you may be saving may be those of your entire family...including the woman you love! Five Lies about Men Read this and learn five TRUTHS about healthy men: we have feelings, we donnot have to fall on our swards rather than admit defeat, we donnot possess super-human constraint, we are not self-sufficient, and we can't always "take it" when it really hurts! Cirrhosis...When The Liver Finally Loses The Batle. This article may well save your life or the life of someone you love. Very few people know what the symptoms of acute alcoholism are, or how that disease eventually leads to a horrible death. Read this if: 1. You are not faint of heart. 2. You suspect that you or someone you love may be in the early stages of alcoholism. 3. You want to learn where to go for real help. Please Stop Drinking Alcohol During Pregnancy! This article goes beyond the startling statistics and explores some of the real costs of this unpresedented situation; young women are consuming more alcohol, legal and illegal drugs and tobacco than their male counterparts. FAS costs more than money, and there really are some things that you can do...regardless of your age or sex, to be part of the solution. Read this, learn where to go for direction, and do something. We are all paying in ways most of us donnot understand We Codependent Men, We Mute Coyotes The codependent man remains under society's radar because he has to do so. Codependency literature is written mostly by women for women, and yet the current generation of women 14-22 are using more alcohol and drugs than their male counterparts! We see a generation rife with codependency among its men. You may be such a man. There is a solution. Please, read this and find out where you can go for help! How the Family Members of Addicts Become Dysfunctional We all know about the horrors of alcoholism and addiction from the point of view of the diseased ones, but how much do we know about the pain these people inflict upon their immediate family members? Here is a view of what an alcoholic wife and mother does to her family. Unlike most articles that tug at our hearts with tales of despair, this one points the reader to a solid source of help for families sufferring with this devestating disease! Flavors of Codependency Psychologists have defined for us some distinct types of codependency. As a man with over 30 years in the Al-Anon program, I have made it my business to “learn the facts about alcoholism,” and I am writing this as a service to whomever God chooses to read it, but especially for all of you fellow 12-steppers in programs such as Al-Anon, Adult Children of Alcoholics, and Nar-A-Non. If you discover yourself described here, PLEASE READ THIS AND GO FOR HELP! It's All In The Family! Here are answers to questions most asked by people when they first call a treatment center looking for help with an alcoholic or addicted loved one. They say something like "...how did this happen?" Childhood roles in families suffering from the diseases of addiction and codependency are clearly defined. Because these sick family systems are self-perpetuating, it is important that we all learn to stop this cycle. Please read this and go for help from the resource suggested in the conclusion! How To Train A Man To Become An Enabler! How to train a man to become an enabler An enabler is any person who does for another person what that person could and should be doing for themselves. This article shows in detail how alcoholics and addicts train their loved ones to continue enabling them so that they can continue to use their drug of choice. Various roles played by different family members is discussed, and there is a SOLUTION offerred at the conclusion...a place the reader can go for help! Help for Parents with Addicted Children Practicle sugestions for parents who suspect or know that their children are using drugs. This is such a widespread issue, and Nar-A-Non is so new that there are very few meetings today in the USA. This article asks real-world questions from three men who have "been there" with addicted children! Are You Living with an Addicted Person? This article is directed at men who are codependents. Addiction is defined, a pointed list of questions is provided for the reader to use to identify if they are indeed living with an addicted person. We discuss denial, especially among men. Help is offerred, especially through the Al-Anon program. Readers are directed to our website for other areas where they can find recovery from codependency.

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