Old 01-30-2012, 04:34 PM
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"doing the right things but still drinking"

The right things might be a hospital detox followed by 90 day rehab and 90 AA meetings in 90 days. Addiction is a disease that requires vigorous treatment beyond general counseling and erratic trips to the hospital.

The disease is in complete control in your home. Complete control of both him and of you.

Starve the disease: do not enable it by assisting him in any way and this includes thinking you are God and you have control over whether he dies there on the floor or not. He might die on the floor, he might die in the tub, he might die in the ER. He might get sober enough to kill himself. He might get sober enough to drive you both off a cliff. The possibilities are endless.

But if you starve the disease by going to Al-Anon and doing EXACTLY what the literature and addiction experts tell you to do, then you will have peace within yourself that at least you did not feed the demon.

Right now, dear, you are both in its claws.

Leave the house and go to meetings and go see an addiction counselor for yourself and follow that person's instructions.

You will then have done the right thing. And God will determine the outcome.
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