Originally Posted by
ananda 
gert...I have had similar type expereinces to what you described....just remember, you are not alone...and the process takes time. My family had a lot of healing to do as well.
In some ways we do walk this path alone, but at the same time we are not alone cause we have each other.....its strange that both are true...
You are doing great!
I understand that she is scared to think of her husband as someone who needs help, or as someone who has lost control in some way, or as an alcoholic. Hell, it's scary for me, and I'm still not really sure how I feel about it, and how I would categorize myself now or in the drinking years. Labels have never really been my things, for now, I categorize myself as someone who drank way too much and needed to stop.
As someone who has found a way to do this and needs support to keep it going and respect for doing it in the first place.