Dear wanttobehealthy, having an alcoholic in our lives--or NOT having an alcoholic to contend with---is no gaurantee of anything.
Everybody in this world gets slobberknocked, more than once, by the world at large. I have never--NEVER--met anyone who didn't have some difficult situation in the workplace to deal with, at some time. Sure, it is difficult to deal with.
I think that we get so used to the idea that if the alcholic circus is out of our lives---then it is going to be a picnic. It is a picnic, sometimes--but, not all the time.
Who knew??
dandylion