Gramma

Do you know any alcoholics? My husband was an alcoholic. We seperated for a few months because of it. Now he doesn't drink. I'm very proud of him. Alcoholism is so scary because it just consumes a person.

If you know an alcoholic, you should do anything you can to help them see their problem, and if they refuse to help themselves walk away. It is so hard. But it needs to be done for their own sake as well as ours.

Lily

My cousin was married to an alcoholic. He wasn't a mean drunk, he was actually a very nice man. But the alcohol consumed his life. When Karen divorced him, he started drinking even more. He eventually, literally, drank himself to death. They found him all alone in his home. And he'd been there quite awhile before they found him. It's really sad what the alcolism did to him.

kiico

My Mom-Mom *Grandmother* was an alcoholic, I never really noticed until I was older and it was too late. Her youngest daughter and her moved away from us in 1992 and I never seen my Mom-Mom again, until her funeral in 2000. I was able to reunite with my Aunt in Nov 97, but she was never able to bring herself to tell me the entire story. She and her mom left our state, so my aunt could keep her away from me/my siblings and my mom. She was hateful and miserable, and wanted company along the way, sadly, she took all the bad from her life out on my aunt, and my aunt by moving away kept this from us. I know she was a good person, but like you said, it consumes and I never doubt that, which is why when I am out social, I don't consume nearly as much as those around me - I know that abuse is use and that never ends up good.

rose

They have hit the nail on the head! Misery loves company, sadly from personal experience I know this all too well as you guys have posted your own stories. Both of my parents were alcoholics, and the one man I spent almost 15 years of my life with decided his drinking was more important that trying to salvage our relationship, for the first time in my life I have been single two years and cant seem to find anyone that fits my wants & needs. What's up with all these people now a days drinking their lives away?