Was it normal in your household to witness/expect your parents to be completely drunk on weekend?

Never my Dad. But my Mum would with various boyfriends. We were pretty poor and I used to be left to play huge bonfires when I was younger. When I was a teenager me and my sister would call her out on it, mainly because she'd priotise buying cava over giving us dinner money and she'd throw stuff at us and kick us out. We'd try and get our Dad to drive 3 hours to us and pick us up and he'd end up talking her into letting us back into the house.

I know a couple who give their kids energy drinks while they do coke and get wrecked almost every weekend, often midweek too. He's a high earner and extremely middle class, she's a stay at home Mum set to inherit millions in farmland, they'll then have blazing rows and the Police often get called.

She used to do the same with her previous partner with kids in the house. He used to go around collecting peoples ash to cook crack, that was grim.

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