The first night that Christopher and his future wife, Cammi, hung out, they drank Jim Beam and smoked pot. And that’s what he would always do, he told her. That’s how he was raised.
The first time Christopher smoked pot, he was twelve—he stole it from his father’s closet. When he was three, his parents divorced and he moved with his dad to Florida, where his dad supervised construction sites. But his dad struggled with substance abuse, and they moved back to Ohio. Christopher remembers that his mom, who also struggled with drug use, tried to get rid of him and his siblings on Sunday by shipping them off to church. Christopher liked it because it meant being away from his mom, “who was pretty mad in those days.”
Christopher loved to drink and party, but vowed that he would be a functioning alcoholic. “I always had to be the best at work,” he said. “And I was. I was very successful at a young age. I was running big construction jobs at a young age that a lot of kids I know wouldn’t even consider doing or want to do.” As he said, he worked hard because “I didn’t want all the things I grew up with.”
[For more of this story, written by David Lapp, go to http://family-studies.org/for-...-be-a-secure-person/]
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