trachemys

" I don't have much tolerance for the still drinking alcoholic today ."

I get that from most of your posts. You've gotten some good advice and starting points for how to deal with that.

My uncle was an alcoholic, too. Runs in our family. He was closest to my age of all my aunts and uncles and more a buddy than any other relative. We went through two episodes of rehab with him and whenever I saw him, drunk or sober, it was always hugs and "I'm gonna do better".

He literally drank himself to death one week.

If I could go back in time and do more to save him, I would forsake a lot of things. It would have helped me to straighten up a few years earlier.

Always offer help.

Fly N Buy

and more is revealed.........best of here
thanks allen

Mountainmanbob

For one thing I used to drink with him.
Takes one to know one.
Plus, he drinks all day and night long.
Plus, he stated the other day that
his brother has no fun in his life because
he doesn't drink.

50 more reasons but,
I need not go there.

As they say,
the proof is in the pudding.

MM

Mountainmanbob

I don't have much tolerance for the still drinking alcoholic today

And I guess that is why I do not hang around drunks today.
I used to drink with my drunkard neighbor -- can't stand being around him today.
Oh well, sober life moves on.
Bob