Originally Posted by
GoodguyJoel 
Much of the relationship reading I have done says if you go from one relationship to another that you will often end up where you were previously, in this case I mean that she will end up in her bad spot with drinking.
"Wherever you go, you take Yourself with you." (Neil Gaiman)
No matter how she changes her life situation, her geography, the people & places she associates with - she's still the same person in every situation. She may hold it together for a while, hiding her dysfunction among the "newness" of everything, but underneath it all she's fundamentally the same. Nothing changes until something
changes, right?
