The Diary of a Victim of 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...

Photo by __april It has been months (6 or more) since I last posted on this site. Sorry. I am still alive and so is Jane. Although sometimes I wonder whether I want to be. Some people will know who I am and you know what, I don't really care. It is all real. What marks this sad site out from many others is that every word is the raw truth. I can't tell people the exact nature of Jane's injury from her overdose because that would be unfair and I can't say much about the overdose but it did cause an injury to one of her legs which has left her disabled and in constant heavy pain. It may repair itself and it may not. This has cause considerable extra stress in the home. And the injury and constant pain has put considerable extra pressure on Jane. But an unexpected benefit is that Jane has lost some of her desire to drink. This may be because she has a new purpose: to get well again. If that is the case, it tells us something about alcoholism.  Purpose, a reason ...