I talked to her about it.
It took some guts but I got it all out. She just looked at me and smiled. She said she had no idea that I felt so strongly about drugs and that she would cut down with the intent to quit. But then she got on my case about my drinking and smoking. And that I didn't have the right to judge her for smoking weed when I drank all the time. Which in a sense is true. But I know that from dealing with my father that's an alcoholic that someone with an addiction will try to down play it by comparing it to someone elses. Which shuts most people up. But not me.
I told her that my drinking habit was not affecting the family. I wasn't the one that would forget to do something because I was drunk. I don't go to family functions drunk and I don't justify my drinking by saying that It's a spiritual thing that settles me down.
All in all it did not go very well. she started out open minded about it all then jumped to the defensive when she realized she really did have a problem. That the way it works dealing with people with addictions.
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Last edited by The Original King; 02-02-2004 at 04:38 PM..
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