It's hard to say? I'm trying to think on whether any therapist that I've had ever point blank told me that I was being abused? The current one perhaps not, as we only graze Upton the child support payment issue and discuss other topics, I mean it's been 8 years since the divorce. The one during the time of my marriage did steer me towards alanon or maybe encouraged my attendance as there was a brochure in his office? I was trying to unravel apron strings from my mom who was super dependent on me during the same time frame.
Now the therapist after him due to insurance changes, he was more in helping me see various angles. The dv during that time was labelled as such.
Maybe steering away from labels is about encouraging empowerment as opposed to defining oneself into the label?

The word choice in "became an alcoholic" during a given time frame piques my curiosity?