Old 04-18-2004, 11:10 PM
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Alison961
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Re: The Female Partner of the Recovering Male Alcoholic

Originally Posted by amarie
Although he hasn't been completely honest with his counselor (he told me everything he told her), I'm hoping that she can see through his lies
Hi Amaire. In my own experience, counselors who know their stuff in working with this disease have a great B.S. detector. When my almost ex AH and I were still trying to keep the marriage together, I'd go nuts knowing that he wasn't being forthright with his counselor. When I started going to f2f meetings, I finally realized that the lying and omissions are really common and that a good counselor will see through it. That was good to know...made me feel a lot less like calling his therapist and letting him know the "truth according to Alison." :wife
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