Direction is something I think a lot of us lack. It happens partly because we are really not sure what to do with ourselves, how to live, how to adult, without booze. It’s part of the reason we run back to it. Life without our crutch can be scary. And the need to run back to ‘safety’ is strong.

But that safety is not real. The love of your life is a snake in your bed. He offers you escape from all the big meanies and scaries, while he quietly tightens the noose around your neck and the bindings on your wrists and ankles.

When others try to save you from him, he whispers in your ear “They don’t know you like I do, love you like I do. I am all you need.” Alcohol is an abusive, controlling lover.

Plotting the course away from booze is every bit as hard as leaving an abusive lover – take it from me. In some ways I would even argue it can be harder.

Society takes a dim view of abusive lovers. But us? Well we did it to ourselves – no one held our noses and poured the booze down our throats now did they. And we could just stop.

This is why we can cop so much flack from people. The disapproval that alters people’s perceptions of us when they learn the truth, and in turn changes the way they treat and regard us. ” excerpt from Fix it Change it Redirect it

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