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Old 12-02-2019, 10:39 AM
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Sasha1972
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Oh geez - very sorry for you. It is like having a front-row seat at a slow-motion horror movie, and you can’t get up to get popcorn during the worst parts.

FWIW my ex did the same thing with texting me random bits of “proof” that he was in the hospital for vomiting, difficulty breathing, chest pains, shingles, herpes infection in his eyes (yes, I know - way TMI) etc. I’m not sure what the point was - to produce the narrative “I’m not a drunk, I’m just someone with a lot of health issues”?

It really is shocking to me that someone can be an intelligent person and cannot be unaware that drinking is killing them - but still go to such lengths to deny that knowledge in order to keep drinking. This cognitive dissonance is an aspect of the addict hardwiring that I will never understand, because the brain I use to try to understand it (mine) is not hardwired the same way.
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