
If you've ever experienced life with an alcoholic parent, you will understand and empathise with the complexities and inherent heartache that comes with it. If you haven't, I'm jealous.
I spent years of my adult life grappling with the reality that my relationship with my mum was not the relationship I desperately yearned for. I craved the kind of mother-daughter relationship that is often portrayed on TV or in movies, like Lorelai and Rory in Gilmore Girls, or Donna and Sophie in Mamma Mia.
It is such a striking comparison to the relationship I had with my own mother but there was always a small part of me that thought I'd experience it one day.
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