Its a shame when people, especially family and friends, don't see they are being offered a life line and do not take it.
I have a family member who drinks at every little crisis.
Sometimes I think she makes more of the situation, crafts it into a drama and a crisis so she can drink herself silly.
Sometimes I want to scream and shout.
Sometimes I want to say for goodness sake do you take nothing in your stride?
Why do you have to drink over every tiny thing?
My only way of living with it, is drawing boundaries.
I want have any communication when drinking has taken place. Text, email, phone whatever.
I also think you should call them out on their behaviour.
Say when they are sending nice, crawling texts, its funny you didn't say that last night at 1am when you texted me, whats changed?
You and I both know whats changed is they don't have a ton of booze cursing round their system, but I always think why shy away from it? If they are brave enough to send bolshy drunken texts, they should be
brave enough to say 'I sent that text when I was drunk, I'm sorry'.
I think you do right.
You are running a profitable business, not a nursery for alcoholic slackers.
Everyone deserves a second chance, but more than that is ridiculous.