Living With An Alcoholic In Your Life Plr Ebook

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 3

1 WHAT IS ALCOHOLISM? 5
HEALTH EFFECTS OF ALCOHOLISM 7

2 HOW TO IDENTIFY AN ALCOHOLIC 10
RECOGNIZING THE SYMPTOMS 12

3 ALCOHOLISM AND MARRIAGE 15
WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO TO HELP 17

4 THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOLISM ON CHILDREN 21
POSSIBLE PROBLEMS OF CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS 23
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS 26

5 HOW TO COPE 31
FINDING SUPPORT 33

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INTRODUCTION

Living with an alcoholic in your life can make life seem impossible. Every day you are walking on eggshells. Life may be stressful, uncertain, or just plain bad. One thing is certain. It is never easy living with an alcoholic in your life.

Living with an alcoholic means that you have a person in your life who you cannot count on. If this person is a spouse then you have someone who should have you as a priority but has alcohol as a priority instead. You cannot count on this person even for day to day tasks because you never know when the need for alcohol will interfere with their life and with yours and you will have to pick up the slack.

Alcohol creates distance. When a person is so totally focused on obtaining and imbibing alcohol then that becomes the main relationship in that person’s life. It is not their significant other, their children, or even their job. The one relationship is the one that they have with alcohol.

All their desire, all their effort goes into their dance with alcohol. Everything else becomes secondary.