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Old 01-12-2011, 11:50 AM
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She drinks to kill the pain from her past hurts. Part of her recovery has to be finding a way to deal with those hurts and moving on.
That's why my RAXH drank, too. Or because work was stressful. Or because nobody liked him. Or because I didn't put out enough. Or because our son got in trouble at school. Or because the wrong candidate won the election for president, governor, or dog catcher.

You are right, of course, that unless she deals with the hurts from her past, even if she stops drinking, she'll be a miserable person to be and to be around.

But even if she does that, as long as she's an alcoholic, like Jazzman says, she'll find a reason to drink.
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