Aaaah yes, those of us who love alcoholics always want to be able to fix it. Being an alcoholic myself, I still want to fix everything for the other alcoholics in my life. I need to go to Alanon.....I think I've been posting that for a year and still have yet to go.

I had a friend who had a defense attorney for a DUI and he was VERY tough on her. He told her he was basically her representative, but that she was guilty, and she needed to sober up.

Many don't understand alcoholism at all, especially in the professional field, lawyers doctors etc. They buy right into the alcoholic's manipulation and blaming their problems on everything but themselves. I was once the same way.

Thats one of the problems with alcoholism.....very few understand it and so they end up enabling the alcoholic/addict without even meaning to.