the frustrating part of being in a family of one is all the counselors approach you with the "its a disease" rational. "hey mom, will your disease allow you to pick me up from school or are you going to ram the Suburban into a tree again today?"
as the child of an alcoholic parent i have ZERO tolerance for this jive. I do not put up with it from coworkers. There are not two sets of rules: those for the lovable drunk and those for everyone else. F'em all to Hell.
Pete leave the DOD credit card at the bar again? Oh well, he's gonna sleep that off. Good thing I found the keys to the Pentagon in that snowdrift.
The entire DOD is part of the codependence now.
I spent a lot of time with my kids teaching them how to hit at young ages and I run hitting clinics for my girls now and I'm astounded at the difference between girls who are in Travel and are hitting all the time and my kids who only lightly did travel and the amount of contact my kids make vs these supposed selected players. My kids were never power hitters (indeed my daughter has noodle arms) but she can put a ball in play on any pitch that is within 5-6" of the strike zone.
Was that taught or was it just reps?
The top notch headhunter agency brought in to find staff for Hegseth are doing their best to find competent executives who are also children of alcoholic parents and were the avatars of codependency for their families.
It’s not easy because that’s insane.