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What kind of relationship can you have with an alcoholic?

Well, I don't think you can have a relationship at all in the conventional sense of a man/woman's loving relationship in which you both contribute in the same way. It is bound to be badly disrupted by the alcoholism of one partner. Indeed destroyed often or normally as it is intolerable. It is the alcoholic's lying with damages trust which is also a major factor. It is said that it is the sober partner of the drunk alcoholic is suffers far more and relatives of the alcoholic if they are close. The drunk is out of it. Sleeping through all the mayhem. What kind of relationship can you have with an alcoholic? Image: Pixabay. In fact, I would be surprised if any partnership survived the alcoholism of one partner provided the other was either a non-drinker or certainly not alcoholic. In other words you are mixing together one normal, healthy person without a drink problem with a person who has a genuine drink problem. The amount of friction that generates is going to destroy the...

Covid-19 did not kill Jane but it'll be a long road to recovery

Update: the road to recovery is shorter than I had expcted for her....This is a quick update on my last post. In that post I said that Jane had caught Covid-19 at hospital while she was recovering from an alcoholic binge. In hospitals in the UK they test you all the time for Covid. Anyway, she recovered in hospital from the worst of the symptoms and is now at home. She says that she lacks energy. She says that Covid is a terrible disease and she is very fatigued and unable to do almost anything. I am vaccinated and I will be doing some research on how infectious a person is after contracting the disease and recovering from it. There must be a time when on the path to recovery a person is no longer infectious. My vaccination was about two weeks ago so I have one more week before I am properly immunised. The booster in about 10 weeks time will immunise me some more. That's about it for the update. Let's just say that Jane pulled through and is on the slow road to recovery. She is...