GlassPrisoner, you raised a very interesting point regarding isolation. My AH isolates big time. We can't have his co-workers over because they all think he dried out for good from last year's rehab, so he can't drink around them. He doesn't appear to have interest in going anywhere, doing anything, meeting anyone, whatever .... When he's sober (which isn't often), he's awkward and ill-at-ease, when he's drunk he's just plain nuts.
In pulling a "geographic" he moved us to an alkie's heaven-on-Earth: small town, middle of nowhere, people aren't particularly friendly ... he can stagger around in the backyard with his bottle or sit starting at the t.v. and nobody, including the neighbors, ever bothers him one bit. Sad, very sad.