Do you know what alcoholism really is and how it can affect someone's whole life? Well I know exactly how it affects someone’s life because it affects mine pretty hard, everyday. Alcoholism is an addiction to drinking alcohol so much that you become dependent on when you are drinking. Even if you know how negatively it affects you, you still decide to drink because you are that dependent. My mother has suffered from alcoholism since I was 10, but it has not always been like this. I’m going to tell you how my life was before alcoholism. First with how my mother obtained this addiction, how I felt and coped with it, and how my life has changed due to her addiction. When I was 6 my dad got a huge job offer in Tennessee so my family had to pack up all of our things from our secluded house out in the country in Brooklyn, Iowa to a close packed neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee. That is when everything truly started because my mom would come home from work and want to just ...