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Is Your Spouse An Alcoholic? |
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Ed Philips |
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Is Your Spouse An Alcoholic?
Ed Philips
Recognizing the symptoms in your partner as being an alcoholic are not always quite so clear. In fact discovering your partner's drinking habits is nearly as stressful for you as it is for him coming to terms with alcoholism.
Anyway, first on the list is to discover any particular pattern in your partner's drinking habits. For example, Is drinking a daily event? or is maybe just the a weekend habit? Do they tend to hit the bottle after a sudden row? Or would you say their stressful job is always a good excuse for a drink or two?
Alcoholics in general tend to always come up with the same excuses for an excessive drinking pattern. A partner who just has the odd drink socially is not on par with one who always visits the pub regularly after work for a relaxing drink. If your partner falls into the latter category then I am afraid that he has become dependent on alcohol to a certain degree.
Many recovering alcoholics state that they always tended to blame someone else for all of their problems; their boss was difficult, their spouse nagged all the time, money was scarce. Instead of admitting to any responsibility, they drank their problems away. Has your spouse been blaming everyone around them for their perceived problems?
Alcoholics tend to ignore their family and the problems associated with handling the day to day tasks of raising a family. Do you feel that you are needing to take up the slack to make the bills, fix your home, or take care of the children? Take a close look at where your spouse is failing for you and your family and see if it can be traced back to alcohol usage.
It really doesn't matter whether you have read an article or seen a statistical survey as the answer to all of these questions will always be an affirmative one, meaning an alcoholic is present within the family. One difficulty arising from this subject is that each case can be different and you don't need to just look at quantity but also at resulting behaviour problems due to alcohol intake. There is a solution to this but the first step is for the two of you to sit down and start to talk about the problem.
The only comforting fact to come out of this really is that there are a lot more people out there in the same boat as you are and that this can be sorted out through their support and guidance. A great way to get started is by looking at the comments made by these people which can be found on http://www.stopdrinkingadvice.org/guide/ You will soon realise that you are not alone on this quest and that help is on the way.
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