G thinks once he gets out that everything will be "all better" and go back to the way it was, because he won't be drinking anymore.
He has a lot of behaviors to unlearn (as do I) before anything can be called "healthy" again, and he needs to recognize this in addition to me recognizing this, or it can't work. I don't know if he had the behaviors from before he drank, or if he learned them as coping skills to hide his drinking, but they're ingrained in him now, and they need to come out.