Reflections: Loving an alcoholic 31 Articles

by Peggy Lindgren

I believe we remember the good times. This is what love does. It manages to soften the hurt, anger and embarrassment over the years. My parents were both alcoholics and in spite of that, looking back I remember the love. ...read more

by T.W. Montgomery

My husband drank nearly every evening. I used to lie in bed at night, anxious, dreading the sound of the heavy, unsteady footsteps coming up the stairs. I would pray that my husband would be passed out in the basement a...read more

by Esther Andrews

Loving an alcoholic is a daily tiptoe back and forth across the line between love and hate, with your only guarantee being disappointment. They are masters in the art of manipulation and you are a mere pawn in their game. ...read more

by Shelley Retterer

Dating a 15 year veteran of AA I felt the afflictions of his disease had long such passed. A relationship with a non drinking alcoholic seemed plausible. After all, I have my own deficiencies. I really didn't look at ...read more

by Lacy Enderson

Loving an alcoholic is tough but possible. Loving an alcoholic to death is inevitable if one doesn't learn the secrets of letting go of the alcoholic, in love. Letting go of an alcoholic child, in love, is probably one of ...read more

by Peg Ronnoco

Reflections: Loving an Alcoholic could be the title for my own auto-biography. I was born to a third generation alcoholic. A little girl's first love; my daddy was the first alcoholic man in my life. I was very much da...read more

by R. M . Evans

The day starts off slow. He has his "morning coffee" and I pretend its "coffee" we both have the day off so we go out and do some shopping and spend the day together. The "coffee" last until about noon then he begins to ch...read more

by T. Marie

Being in love isn't easy in the best case. Loving an alcoholic can make a relationship a great deal more difficult. It is incredibly painful to watch someone you love drink themselves incoherent every night. They k...read more

by Silkbutterfli

I loved him and gave him chance after chance, after chance. It was always the same, "I don't have a problem", "I am not an alcoholic". The year before we got married, he purposely borrowed my car, went out, got drunk, le...read more

by Tim Gray

My mother's battles with alcoholism are among my earliest memories. Nearly fifty years later they are still upsetting to me, for I was her youngest child and we were very close when I was a preschooler. She was my primar...read more

by Samantha Farrow

My mother came from an alcoholic home; her mother was a serious alcoholic. My mom and her younger sibling, Jenny, were born with FASD. My mother was born three months premature in 1948. Because this, she has severe hearing...read more

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by Angie Lewis

Loving Your Alcoholic Wife. If anyone knows what it's like to live with an alcoholic wife it would be my husband, who for several years, battled with my addiction with me. That's right, he battled alcoholism with me. A...read more

by Rose Manila

I knew him so well My brother died on a Thursday at the break of dawn just like what he told me many summers ago, he was 54. But I think I lost him years before that, when he started drinking, the bottle did not just to...read more

by Rena Sherwood

Never fall in love with an alcoholic. Run away from them as soon as you discover that they are alcoholics. This is the best free advice you are ever going to get. But, of course, you're not really going to pay attenti...read more

by Ron Oetting

We met in the bar where she worked. I entertained clients; she served the cocktails. For thirteen months, most of our dates took place in bars. Alcohol was a vibrant, vital part of our marriage as we found any excuse to 'h...read more

by Pamela Mercier

One cannot truly love an alcoholic. In order to love someone, you do have to be able to overlook minor issues such as how the toothpaste tube is rolled or squeezed, socks on the floor instead of in the hamper, even c...read more

by Dee Belle

Give Me the Strength Dear Lord The man that I love was "in recovery" when I met him. Oh, what a relief. I had had two marriages previous to this one and both were to actively drinking men, so I thought this would me dif...read more

by Erin Knight

I have loved a lot of alcoholics. Unfortunately it is a disease that runs rampant in my family. It does not discriminate based on age, gender or race. It is life consuming, and destroys not only the person afflicted, but a...read more

by Barbara Kasey Smith

Marriage to an alcoholic is miserable, humiliating, humbling, fearful, embarrassing, unreliable, insecure, frightening, monitoring, heart rendering, etc., etc. Loving an alcoholic is a rough life for any man or women becau...read more

by Ashley Reinike

I never imagined someone else having such an impact on my life as an alcoholic had. Looking back there were so many bad times and scary times. Even though everyday consisted of bad and scary events I still wouldnt change h...read more