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• The alcoholic may not take too kindly to this change, especially at first. The alcoholic needs a drink, and the only way he or she can take one comfortably is by picking a fight.
• Some of us created fantasy lives so that we didn’t have to think about the pain in which we actually lived.
• In the beginning, many of us are genuinely concerned and merely want to help a relative or friend who is obviously not well.
• ignored. It becomes more desirable to stay home than to risk another public humiliation.
• Alcoholics act and we react. No one can tell the drinker anything—he or she calls all the shots. Alcohol fosters an exaggerated sense of confidence and well-being, prompting the drinker to act like a little god with all the answers. At the same time the drinker becomes increasingly irrational. In response, we argue, trying to get him or her to see ...