There comes a point in our lives when we have to ask ourselves just how much more we are willing to take before we ourselves break down.
The alcoholic is not going to quit drinking. The turmoil they cause can be devestating. That devestation takes a huge toll on us.
My mother was a hateful mean drunk for many years. I left home as a teenager and did not have any thing to do with her for 15 years, that is until she got in to AA and got sober.
She is still an alcoholic with many of the strange behavior, but at least now I can have a relationship with her.
I choose not to have a relationship with any alcoholic. No family member and no friend. All it has ever done for me is drag me into an eternal world of chaos and pain.
It is their decision NOT to get help.
I hope you'll hang around here. It certianly has been good for me.