Children of Alcoholic Homes May Have Trust Issues

When children grow up in a home with alcoholism and the usual denial that surrounds it, they may develop serious trust issues as adults. The lies, the keeping secrets, and the broken promises all add up to send a message to the children that trusting can backfire on them.

许多人成长为成年，无法真正信任任何人，这会影响他们与他人的浪漫，专业和精神关系。酗酒父母真的让自己完全信任，他们已经失望了。

Having trust issues is one of the common characteristics that many adult children of alcoholics share. Although these traits are common to adult children of alcoholics, they can also occur due to other family dysfunctions and development issues.

游客很难回答这个问题“How Do You Feel Growing Up With an Alcoholic Parent Has Changed You?" by telling their stories about trust issues below:

不会抓住机会
I want to trust people but there is a little voice in the back of my head warning me to stay safe. Better to be alone than to ever subject myself to even the chance that someone might abuse me emotionally the way my mother did.-- Pufflet

Paralyzed Emotionally
I am so afraid of trusting anyone, I feel paralyzed emotionally. I am a 42 year old women that has never had a meaningful relationship with a man. I feel so alone and that my life has been a complete and total waste of time. I yearn for someone to love me, but I am unable to let anyone close enough to love. I too am a fixer, but I am unable to fix me. I am damaged goods, unable to live the life that I see others living, unable to love or trust anyone.- Git It女孩

我不信任一个人
The effects of my childhood have been numerous and overwhelming. I'm 27 years old and have had only one long term relationship which was very dysfunctional. I have an intense fear of intimacy and trust no one. I have recently become extremely isolated in my life.-- L.W.

每个人都会让我失望
I have serious trust issues, I believe that everyone will eventually let me down, but really it's no more than I deserve.-- Orla

你受到影响吗？

Do you have trouble trusting anyone? Have you been affected in other ways by growing up with alcoholism in the home? You may want to拿这个测验to find out other ways you may have been affected without realizing it.

Many adult children of alcoholics who find it difficult to trust have found help by becoming members ofAl-Anon Family Groupsor the support groupAdult Children of Alcoholics.