Date:   4/24/2006 12:48:39 PM ( 18 y ago)
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Droffina, I am surprised at your seeming bitterness. AA I thought was an orginization of welcome and nonjudgement, and certainly not of determining what makes one an alcoholic. Calling an Alcoholic a "weekend warrior" is quite distasteful and unsupportive on a support forum. I was just stepping in here, and I think this is about the least supportive post I have read on curezone, except on the Debate Forums .
Alcoholism takes many shapes and forms, it is about an inability to control one's alcohol intake, a dependency on it. It is about escape. It is about emotions. For some that can mean a bottle of wine every night, for others it means sips throughout the day, for some it can mean binges in spurts of being sober, some it is a social thing, not knowing when to quit when with friends, for some it is a weekend six pack. It has many shapes, many faces, and people are alcoholics for different reasons and in different ways. I don't think the poster felt his alcoholism of 15 years made him a weekend warrior, and because your pattern of drinking started just on the weekends doesn't mean his did. I hope you will see the light of this, and understand that I just needed to post this because I have suffered much with an x-husband who was an alcoholic, and a Mother who was an alcoholic. Mom drank everyday of the week. Husband drank only on weekends. That was also the time he was passed out, throwing up or beating me. It didn't ever happen during the week. I still believe he was and probably still is an alcoholic."Weekend Warrior" sure never seemed like a word I would use to describe that type of pain.
 

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