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Originally Posted by healingme4me
I'm a fan of the book, "The Alcoholic's Wife". Has some great insight about how absorbed we become with our spouse's illness and adds insight into how to shed those shackles. It's a stressful feeling, for sure.
We become ill ourselves from things such as counting beer cans *raises hand*.
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Yup. Did that too. Counted bottles.
Al anon literature helped,meetings not so much. I remember one saying "you are not going to flower shop to buy bread, so why are you going to alcoholic for emotional support? He can't give it"
. It really helped me to make decisions to leave. Mappers husband probably just can't give what she needs. He doesn't have it