Living With An Alcoholic Wife Without Losing Your Life

Do you ask yourself how can you keep your sanity while you're living with an alcoholic wife

? It is impossible to make her stop drinking. To make sure you got that, here is the important fact again:

You cannot force her to stop drinking.

However, what you can do when you're living with an alcoholic is to freely chose your own reactions and behaviors. The most important thing is to make sure that your wife takes responsibility for her alcohol abuse addiction and she deals with all of the consequences herself. What does this look like?

When you're living with an alcoholic wife, you may feel obliged to make excuses for her drinking and the problem situations she gets herself into. Has she asked you to lie for her in order to help her get out of a mess. Perhaps you have called her boss to let him know that she was sick when in reality she was hung-over... or she was still drunk.

That is how you influence her alcoholic abuse addiction.

A well known trap when living with an alcoholic wife is you end up believing your role is to support her and be there for her even when she's on one of her alcohol abuse addiction "roller-coaster rides". This only makes the situation, and your life deteriorate even further.

Thats especially true if you are living with an alcoholic who resorts to violence and abuse emotional, mental, psychological or physical. If you are, then take yourself away from there immediately. Nothing will change the violence and abuse will always be there unless she gets the right treatment and help, and has remained alcohol free for a proper period of time.

It requires tough love to break the cycle when youre living with an alcoholic. This means that you must ensure that your wife bears the full consequences of her alcoholic addiction. She must begin to experience the damage that her drinking is causing and she has to take responsibility for it.

Provoking, pressuring or manipulating her to enter in to a rehab for alcohol seldom works. People with alcohol abuse addiction are only ready to receive help and make a change when they hit rock bottom. So stop lying and covering up for your alcoholic wife. If she put herself into a problem situation, she must deal with it herself. When you apply tough love, she may get to rock bottom a lot quicker (and be ready to receive help) than if you keep enabling her alcoholic addiction. This can be the difference that saves her life and your marriage.

While there is no quick fix for what to do when youre living with an alcoholic wife, there are definite things you should NOT do. And there are things you definitely need to do to become more effective in dealing with your wife's alcohol abuse.

Its a common mistake to try and manage the alcoholic addiction instead of getting informed and taking a stand against the addiction. From where you are now, it may seem unlikely but it is the most empowering and loving thing to do when youre living with an alcoholic wife.

by: Bobby Jones

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