Wearing The Skeletons In Your Closet
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This true and very candid story provides a bold glimpse at how child abuse can not only affect a victim's soul, but how it touches the souls of their children. It is evident, demonstrated by the family's diverse, and sometimes bizarre, behaviors, that their souls matured at different levels. It is for the reader to recognize ones that had inner strength as they matured. This book attempts to uncover hidden damage to minds that created people willing to act out incest, crimes, and other poor behaviors.
Though not a story for children, this deals with children's lives. Children of alcoholics have skeletons in their closets. They are taught to never discuss them with outsiders. That makes it difficult to analyze their behaviors. My story sheds any cover-ups. It also tries to instill hope in those who develop the shocking wish to destroy the evil skeletons inside themselves by trying to harm themselves.
I began to research our family history thirty years ago, when my brother, Arnie, was killed in a car accident. My other brother, Roger, told me that an agent asked Arnie, a short time before he died, to write a book about his life. Though that book never went to print, it became a basis for this present story. I also tried to look through Roger's eyes at what I pieced together. He will, no doubt, say that there are some ages that are not exact, there are some cities that aren't correct. I am confident, though, that he will not refute the words nor behaviors it portrays. My background in nursing required studying some psychology courses. My research into programs for children of alcoholics, as well as some sessions with psychologists, have offered some suggestions on how to change the cycle of abuse. The other qualifications I have to write this comes from knowing myself and my family.