"alcoholics don't have relationships, they take hostages"
I have heard this said: "alcoholics don't have relationships, they take hostages".
As a recovering A also recovering from Codependency, I think I understand what this saying means, but am curious if others could splain it to me real simply.
I think back to my active days when:
I couldn't tell an anecdote, it had to be an epic.
I did not have dialogues, I had monolgues.
I awfulized everything that happened to me, making me feel special.
My bad day was your bad day, too.
Is it kinda like that?
Would love to wrap my head around this better. ThankS!