View Single Post
Old 04-18-2011, 06:45 AM
  # 16 (permalink)  
TeM
Member
 
TeM's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 255
I've experienced a variation of this. Whenever I or my daughter confront AW about her drinking, she gets all indignant and says "What's the big deal? I can handle it."

Of course, she can't "handle it", but either can't see it or refuses to acknowledge it. She has a drinking buddy that visits once a week, and they talk on the phone every day. The Drinking Buddy apparently is able to hold her liquor a little better and operates as the classic enabler, telling AW that we have no right to control her life.

AW definitely plays the persecuted, misunderstood drinker and tries to lay the guilt on me.
TeM is offline