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Discussions
rehab
- By pantinker · Posted September 14, 2009
- In Family and friends of alcoholics · 25 replies
- my husband was in rehab for 7 day for alcoholism. He wrote a prayer calling the inmates angels. I have a problem with that. Is this normal for people in rehab ...
finding help
- By Tag · Posted August 24, 2009
- In Finding help · 0 replies
- One of the hardest hurdles for any acoholic to jump is to admit "I may be an alcoholic. Look at yourself realistically. Has your alcohol use increased over the years? Does it take more beer or liquor ...
Confussed?
- By Smish · Posted July 13, 2009
- In Family and friends of alcoholics · 4 replies
- My best friend of 22 years told me this past weekend that she is an alcoholic. She and I both have been drinking since we were 14. She drinks several drinks at one setting, and realized she cannot stop ...
I should have done this sooner
ALCOHOLICS
- By Frostie · Posted June 4, 2009
- In Family and friends of alcoholics · 12 replies
- My husband is a Alcoholic he has to drink everyday don't get me wrong he works everyday but he treats like i'm not even here unless he wants to be intiment all other time i'm mentaly abused he says things ...
Please help
- By amanda12 · Posted April 24, 2009
- In Family and friends of alcoholics · 5 replies
- I've been married for 8 years and I knew my husband drank when we got married but I really new nothing about this disease. He went to work everyday and was very supportive of me. The 3 years ago he started ...
Girlfriend returning from rehab... please help w/ advice.
- By grafixmage · Posted April 3, 2009
- In Family and friends of alcoholics · 3 replies
- The woman I want to spend the rest of my life with is returning from rehab today. I'm deathly afraid of showing support in the wrong ways, or of approaching the subject of resuming our relationship too ...
help
- By cortezclub · Posted March 13, 2009
- In My struggle with alcohol · 4 replies
- I really feel sick when I don't drink...Is that normal to feel sooo bad. I just feel sick to my stomach. How can I cope with this feeling. I also feel guilty. I feel like I have made some bad remarks...of ...
The hardest thing I ever had to do
- By pesky1 · Posted February 18, 2009
- In Family and friends of alcoholics · 3 replies
- My family struggles with addiction! We've all self medicated to avoid dealing with the woes in our lives and it has inhibited us from living for far too long. My oldest Brother left straight from graduation ...
Lost
- By lola26 · Posted January 11, 2009
- In My struggle with alcohol · 4 replies
- I have been struggling with drinking for quite a few years. It all started when I realized that I was not happy in my marriage. Not that is a good excuse, but thats when it began. i have remarried and ...
new here
- By johnp · Posted January 7, 2009
- In My struggle with alcohol · 13 replies
- Trying to stop drinking and find friends online I can chat with about my problem w alchohol ...
It’s the Holidays. How About Just One?
- By Peter · Posted December 9, 2008
- In In the news · 3 replies
- An interesting read, from the New York Times blogs. "I had my last drink nearly 16 years ago, so you’d think I would have assimilated pretty much every bit of unpleasantness associated with clean and ...
Thanksgiving and the kids
- By deebelle · Posted November 24, 2008
- In Family and friends of alcoholics · 0 replies
- Dreading the day(thanksgiving) when I am with three kids all in the same house, all with their own issues. I think to myself that I won't do this another year but find myself again in a situation I really ...
Expectations
- By deebelle · Posted October 19, 2008
- In Family and friends of alcoholics · 2 replies
- I goofed again. I had expectations. Al-anon meetings talk of this but I backslided and expected something of the two alcoholic kids.It deeply saddens me that what I believed was not going to happen. I ...
