My Experience of Alcohol Addiction

It's so hard to accept that I cannot help my husband to get free of this. All my efforts have just resulted in me becoming more entangled and trapped in the situation and have had no impact on him. I keep looking for miracles in his life but this obessesion has left me almost as hopeless and desolate and self-obsessed as he is. 2 years ago I freed myself from this situation and left him but fear of what would happen to him if he were left to his own devices drew me back. Now I am where I was before only now more trapped as in order to 'help' him, we now own a house together and are married. I thought that the responsibility and the demonstration of my ...  Read the complete review

My boy friend is an alcoholic. Or at least, that should now be ex-boyfriend, as he walked out for the umpteenth time ten days ago. I feel very guilty about not talking to him about his problem in the weeks leading up to this. Actually, I feel guilty full stop. I have only come to admit to myself the extent and reality of his addiction in the past two months, previously (we were together three and a half years) I buried my head in the sand and tried to ignore the problem, as this would mean dealing with it. So in a way, I am no bettter than him. In fact right now I think I am possibly worse as I am not the one with the problem and should have at least tried to get ...  Read the complete review

I had been happily married for twelve years, and we had borne three children when the world changed. The reality is like one of those horror films which opens with a pastel-tinted scene, all smiles and laughter, no cares in the world. Gradually, little things happen which make you blink (did you imagine that?), events occur which grate against the grain of your shared concept of normality, and you discover horrid secrets. To live with an alcoholic you have to be strong. How you use that strength is an independant decision slowly evolved as you circle your opponent. I say opponent because no matter how much you love them, indeed, because you love them, the ...  Read the complete review

Ever since I can remember my mother has drunk she is an alcholic but wont admit it anytime anything goes wrong shes off to the pub. When I was little she was never there she used to give me money so she could go to the pub. I had an older sister but she had left home because she had enough. My mother was drunk most nights and when I came home from school I had to sit on the doorstep and wait for her to leave the pub I sat out there come rain or shine not pleasent for a young child some times she brought blokes home imagine how disturbing this is for a child. We were taken in to care as she could not cope she was to busy drinking we were just an ...  Read the complete review

*my experience* I am very proud to say that I have been alcohol free for about 1 month and 17 days. God I craved Vodka yesterday but I got through the evening by popping a couple of valium (a mood calming drug). When your recovering from heavy drinking you need to take one day at a time. I havent given up drinking for the rest off my life but I have given up drinking for today. I started out drinking a few pints now and then (most the time with the intention of getting drunk). A couple of pints turned to 3 and 3 eventually turned into 9 pints a day or half a bottle to a bottle of whiskey a day. The thing that annoyed me the most when I was a boozer ...  Read the complete review