The Diary of a Victim of an Alcoholic

You have to be sympathetic towards alcoholics because there but for the grace of God go I. Alcoholism is described as a disease. I don't think that it is. It is a very strong habit, almost impossible to shake off. But humans are predisposed to this sort of condition. Anybody can be born with this predisposition towards alcoholism.  Photo: Pixabay. Humankind is quite a messed up species of creature. Clearly, a large segment of society finds life intolerable and therefore they need to get out of it, remove themselves from it. Alcoholism does it for them only the downside after the upside is enormous. The downside is far worse than the upside but alcoholics never quite digest that simple fact. So we have to be sympathetic towards alcoholics. They damage their lives and they can't control their lives and they hate the world. I understand it completely but fortunately I don't have that problem (although I hate the human world sometimes). And if you don't have that problem...

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...