Sublime

adult children seek to control others and ward off potentially shaming or abandoning situations.

We either become alcoholics,

Adults from divorced homes understand shame and confusion and also identify in ACA.

We judge ourselves harshly and have a very low sense of self-esteem.

We became addicted to excitement.

We stop believing we have no worth and start to see our true identity, reflected in the eyes of other Adult Children, as the strong survivors and valuable people we actually are.

We get guilt feelings when we stand up for ourselves instead of giving in to others.

We are dependent personalities who are terrified of abandonment and will do anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to experience painful abandonment feelings, which we received from living with sick people who were never there emotionally for us.