Yeah, I know it looks really bad typed out. His delivery of it was different though...it didn't so much at the time feel like he was saying my drinking beer was as bad as smoking crack...more like anyplace where you're a regular can feel welcoming. It would have been better if he'd used the example of a coffeeshop (especially since he has a bit of a coffee addiction--see the first part of my session writeup). Then again, maybe he was trying to make the point with the crackhouse that anyplace where you consume an addictive substance can seem welcoming...

I might have to ask him about that comparison tomorrow, what exactly he meant by it. In a way, it makes me think of an ex who was abusing prescription pain pills (like, getting them illegally). At the time, I smoked (stopped over 10 years ago), and he would be super critical of my smoking, acting like it was worse than his using the pain pills. I was like, "Well, I couldn't go to jail for smoking, so..." As in, yes, it was incredibly unhealthy but also...legal. Plus he kept lying to me about the pills.