He is loving, and funny, and he buys all the groceries, cooks all the dinners, walks the dog, takes out the trash, you get the picture. He looks at me, tells me I am beautiful, and makes me feel safe.
My axw was everything I could have wanted in a wife and partner in the beginning. A good friend of mine has been married to an alcoholic for 20 + years and I remember him saying about our wives years ago, (long before I "was schooled"), when they're good, they are really, really good. BTW she quit drinking 5 years ago.
I believe the average alcoholic "tries harder" than his/her nonalcoholic counter parts, especially in the beginning. To hook us, and to try and offset all the nonsense that comes along with the "package".
I don't necessarily think this show is conscious or premeditated in all cases. But I DO think the ability to present a "too good to be true" persona is necessary to find and keep enablers like I was.
Anywho, JMHO!
Thanks and God bless us all, :ghug3
Coyote