"Anyway, I would be grateful if you could tell me about your personal experiences with relapse and how you wish your loved ones would react/would have reacted to it. "
my personal experience with relapse it that i had one, but i didnt drink.
relapse ends with a drink and starts way before a drink is taken.
IF i drank again, how other people react wouldnt be my problem they are allowed to react however they want. i dont own them.
however, i would hope that if i were to drink again, theyd push me out of their lives. the reason being is because im thoroughly convinced that IF i drink again, i wont pick up where i left off, ill pick up and it will be as if i never stopped.
i would want my family to keep their boundaries