Originally Posted by
fini 
nah, it's the first thing hat popped into my mind when i read your title: clearly something is wrong when we have a relationship with alcohol!
my old relationship with alcohol was a very well- rehearsed dance, with all the choreographed steps of rituals, sensory inputs, actual drinking, arranging set- ups, and going through a little window of harmony before the ugliness started.
yep.
relationship.
I have had a couple of actual person-person relationships that resembled this, now that I think about it. They were painful and short but also way too long.