KittyP

He had been seeing a community support group where we used to live and very grudgingly attending AA. We moved a few weeks ago and he's now attending AA 3 times at weekends and actually seems to be getting something from it. He had been seeing an alcohol specialist psychologist where we used to live and had one appointment with an alcohol specialist psychiatrist in our new area but hadn't been able to schedule a new appointment due to starting a new job. Though he also didn't try work around that and was seemingly content to put it on the back-burner.

This morning he rang his psychologist and has scheduled a weekly phone session with her as of tomorrow. He's also left a message with the psychiatrist here to try arrange an appointment this week or else get a recommendation for someone he can see on Saturday mornings. He also got some recommendations from someone he likes at one of his AA meetings for some late evening, weekday AA meetings that he can try out after work.

He told me last night that he's been finding things much harder than he anticipated. We've been living abroad for the last five years due to his work but has just started a contract at home for the next year. (I moved us while he was in detox). He said he'd been under the stupid impression that moving home would make everything ok. But he's now realising that being home has brought up a new set of pressures and he still has to work at getting better. Hopefully he'll start following through on things again.