They don’t talk about the siblings enough. The ones who didn’t use. The ones who kept their grades up. The ones who learned how to be “easy” while the house burned. The ones who held their breath every time the phone rang. The ones who watched their sibling unravel and quietly lost their parent to fear, hypervigilance, and survival mode. Because addiction doesn’t just take one child. It fractures the entire family system. And sometimes, without intending to, it teaches the si

"I thought back to many occasions where Rhys' brother had been so excited for a day trip and then only allowed to see the entrance gate...