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Far more frequently as one partner to a marriage increasingly abuses alcohol, the other adjusts to keep the marriage in balance. And that is what happens to a couple when one becomes addicted to alcohol and the other becomes codependent.
Categories: Alcoholism, Alcoholism and Marriage
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Tags: addiction, alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcoholic, Alcoholism, codependency, codependent, Marriage
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Life is full of events that lead to personal distress. And stress can build upon stress which can lead to marriage problems. If one of you drinks to reduce stress, in time the drinking itself causes stress and becomes a major roadblock to solutions.
Quite naturally, you look around to see what’s causing your distress and the only person there is your spouse, so you instinctively blame him or her for upsetting you.
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage, Marriage, News
| Tags: addiction, alcohol-abuse, blame, distress, love and respect, Marriage, marriage problems
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The fact is that many people have overcome an addiction to alcohol on their own without ever entering an alcohol treatment center or going to group meetings. I read recently that you’re three to six times as likely to be successful if you stop drinking alcohol on your own as you would be by going to a traditional treatment program…
Categories: Alcohol Rehab, Alcoholism and Marriage, Self Growth
| Tags: alcohol, alcohol treatment centers, alcohol-abuse, alcoholic, Alcoholism, drinking-problem, impaired driving, stop drinking, stop drinking alcohol
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The following is an interview I participated in on IdeaMarketers.com for National Recovery Month.
September is National Recovery Month. A month dedicated to the message that recovery from alcohol or drug abuse is possible. There are many people who live with the secret that they have an alcoholic in their family. These same people struggle with questions on what they can do [...]
Categories: Addiction Recovery, Alcoholism and Marriage
| Tags: alcohol, alcohol dependence, alcohol dependent, alcoholic, Alcoholism, drug abuse, functioning alcoholic, national recovery month
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“My Partner is a Functioning Alcoholic”
Being married to a functioning alcoholic is a big problem. Tens of thousands of families in North America alone are struggling with the issue.
For a minority of people social drinking can gradually deteriorate into alcohol abuse and eventually into alcohol dependence. The drinking could have started in a lot of [...]
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage
| Tags: alcohol-abuse, Alcoholism, Alcoholism Test, book-on-alcoholism, functioning alcoholic, Marriage
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