Originally Posted by
Scram 
Hi Class of July '15
Alcohol has gone from an exciting new friend (high school), to very good friend (college), to a best friend (early 20s - mid/late 20s), to a codependent/semi toxic buddy (late 20s - 30), to an abusive and manipulative partner that routinely treats me like sh*t and demands virtually all my time (30 - today). If alcohol were a person I would have absolutely cut them off by now. I'm not saying I deserve the greatest care in the world but I deserve better than this. We all do.
Talk to you all soon -
The toxic relationship metaphor comes to me sometimes too, especially when I get really sad about giving up something that I still love in this perverse way...almost nothing about it is really enjoyable anymore other than the memory of what it once was...