Originally Posted by
patricia68 
My father in law shows up, he brings home a bunch of booze...and hands me a bottle of Baileys "Merry Christmas!"
So I asked him politely to put the cans and bottles in the mini fridge downstairs because there's not much room in the kitchen, and I give him the Baileys back "Thanks but I'm not drinking this Christmas. Doctor's orders"...and he says "Oh, but this is for the coffee!" Seriously Universe...you're killing me....Baileys almost got me in a coma two years ago...gah! So here I am, working my tush off so everybody can have a great Christmas, pretending to be happy in my broken marriage...and gallons of booze all over the house....Merry flippin Christmas to me
Ok, rant/pity party over...I'll go make some chamomile tea
Ok so here is another story that happened to me recently. There was a big family party with ALOT of drinking. My husband's father knew that I was trying to stay sober so he decided to take me out to dinner instead of the party so I could avoid all the alcohol at the party. The first thing he did when we got to the restaurant was order a beer right in front of me!!! He proceeded to have several more. Seriously??? Haha. He went out of his way to protect me from being around alcohol, took me to dinner & ordered alcohol! Lol
I really just think it is just as hard for nonalcoholics to understand alcoholics as it is for us to understand normal drinkers. Non alcoholics seriously just don't get it!!! At ALL! And the sad thing is...my husbands family had lost several people to alcoholism at a young age! Liver failure!