Without a Glass

Believing that her love would have the power to free him from the clutches of his internal demons, she declared herself his savior and wedded the boy and his bottle.
For twenty-six years she cuddled him, cried for him and watered his vodka. On the last day of his tempestuous love affair with booze, she froze in horror as shattered glass sprayed around her and hot oil from a frying pan arced toward his only challenger, their older daughter.

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A memoir, anonymously authored to protect her family, this story endlessly repeats itself in varying relationships throughout our society. The statistics are frightening: 50% of the children of alcoholics marry alcoholics; more than that number become addicts themselves. But sometimes the chain is broken. Sometimes there is recovery without a glass.