re: #205 Justanotherhuman

Even though I have an alcoholic/drug addicted son, who has been through rehab and also AA, I don’t know how to give any advice on this, but I stopped enabling him a long time ago—he had to reach his own level before he sought help because I couldn’t give it anymore in any form. My son is doing better w/sobriety, but his health is very poor (which I think in some ways sobered him up more than anything else). He is still a very dependent person and has applied for disability since he has both liver (hep C probably w/cirrhosis) and heart disease (stents). I don’t know if dependency is ever conquered totally since it covers so much territory.

His wife is incredibly patient, but her dad is an alcoholic so she refuses to say anything. He alienated my wife by phoning drunk and abusing her so she won’t talk to him until he gets help.

I’ve been trying to get him to go into rehab for a while but up until recently he didn’t want to admit he has a problem.