Are you an enabler in your partner’s alcoholism?
The thing that seems to start off the enabling process is lack of knowledge about alcohol and alcoholism. It is because the community does not have enough knowledge about alcoholism that we come to believe the rationalisations of the alcoholic and start the enabling process.
We obviously need to amend the statement so that the assumption reads: “Provided that we have the relevant knowledge, we all have the power to run our own lives in a sensible way.”
The minimum we need to know is that:
- Alcoholism is a disease which can be treated with reasonable chance of success.
- Alcoholism should be suspected as the problem if the drinking is causing disruption in relationships, in social functioning or in the emotional wellbeing of anyone in the family.
- Enabling is a process which allows the alcoholic to get worse and eventually causes immense problems to family members.
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