I think as part of our recovery and growth, we need to look at why we keep believing these things an alcoholic says to us.
In the face of such evidence that they have said them many times before and never stuck to them.
This was a chat I was having with a friend yesterday about my late alcoholic husband, why did I keep expecting a different result when I had seen so many times before that what he choose to tell me were lies and not going to happen.
I think it was a denial in me, in my outlook. I desperately wanted it to be true even thought I knew it wasn't.