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Old 05-24-2006, 01:13 PM
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earlybird
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Location: Livonia, MI
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No. You are enabling her to remain a drunk. Alcoholics USE people. Thats just what we do in the midst of addiction. As long as you or anyone swoops in to clean up her messes, carry her to the couch,...accompany her to the store, bail her out of jail, or looking after her in ANY WAY,...as long as you are doing these things,....she will never get help. You are not helping her. You are shielding her from any and all consequences from her own drinking. The only thing you can really do at this point is, stop "cleaning up her messes" for her,....let her SEE what she is doing to HERSELF. That,.....and perhaps an intervention. Get you, her friends, neighbors, her family, and anyone else who cares about her together and confront her on it. Force her to address the issue with all of you all at once. Usually, this is enough for the addict to take a serious look at themselves. Its the embarrassment, the shame of what they have been doing hitting them all at once that sometimes causes them to seek help or ask for it. At this intervention you all must lay down serious consequences to her not seeking help. These being, you are not helping her any longer in any way. If she continues to use, none of you can have her in your lives any longer in any fashion. Stress to her that you all love her, and because of that, you cannot go on watching her destroy herself. Its too hard. Say all these things. But, you absolutely MUST mean it. You cannot back on any of the things you say. If you do, you undo any good the intervention had. Its hard. But you must do this to help her. That is the only thing I can come up with. Good Luck !!!
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