Originally Posted by DII

I'm back....although my posts get further between, I'm still in it with the AW. Do you ever get the love and trust back? It's been 5 yers and while she has had progress in her disease one pattern remains. She can go almost a year and then relapse in the same pattern. You see it coming physically, emotionally, then you smell it, then denial, then a lie that it's a cold or not "feeling well", then losing control and completely intoxicated, then "I'm sorry", then I take her to detox and/or the ER because she is so sick.