Is Your Relationship With Alcohol a Big Deal?

I did not grow up with parents who were alcoholics and it sounds like destructive alcoholics in the way that your folks were, nor in a family system that therefore had to deny that alcohol was a problem. It's worth thinking about whether to some extent you're sabotaging this relationship because this is a guy who very clearly deeply loves you. There's something deeply essential in you that still thinks of alcohol as a great evil, a great force of destruction. Alcoholism is a big deal and it is the reason for so many bad things that happen in our world. People die every day because of that disease. So that's no joke but it's also true that alcohol is a wonderfully joy