It's hard -- alcoholics get to be experts at charming doctors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, lawyers, and anyone else they talk to, into believing that they do not have a problem with alcohol. They're pros at turning it around so everyone they talk to ends up convinced that, in fact, they do not have a problem with alcohol and that it's their family members who have the problem. They portray us as intolerant bluenosed control freaks who constantly make a big deal out of nothing. Sure, they relax with a cold one in the evening -- who doesn't? But their crazy spouse/kids/parents/in-laws keep acting like they're some big alcoholic -- which any fool can plainly see is not the case!
I certainly didn't find any way of preventing my Dad from drinking, or my Mom or my wife for that matter. There's really no way to do it, or if there is, I haven't found it yet!
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