Simply put, their brains don't recognize emotions.
They can stiffen with anger at what was meant to soften with sorrow. They can fly right by a look planted with deliberation to elicit a question, a conversation, any need to communicate. Relationships crack, then they splinter.
Still, that burning question is left unanswered: did turning to the bottle deaden that person's emotional response, or was it the other way around? Whatever the cycle, children of alcoholics are at far greater risk due both to nature and nurture.
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