Our Alcoholic Friend

[ttcycle]

You probably should have that open and honest conversation. You can always point your good friend in the direction of Al- Anon so that he gets the support he needs. What he has to do is to stop enabling her to continue with the drinking and make a stand with it - if she won't stop drinking then he needs to put his needs first and that takes courage. None of which you can do anything about.

Addictions in whatever form are horrendous.

 

[User482]

One of my biggest problems with the whole thing is that her partner is a good friend and a good bloke and I fear this will result in him being more isolated. I don't really fear an end to our friendship with her but she will probably drag him along with her.

I don't envy you. My sister's ex was (probably still is) alcohol dependent, but we didn't want to make my sister choose between us, not least because we probably wouldn't have liked the answer. One can only hope that, like my sister, your friend comes to his senses.