How Has Alcohol Affected Your Relationships?

Yup I was knocked about too by my ex my advice run my friend has too she's been in rehab and doing great

Ex husband was a total alcoholic and was in RN at the time so they put him in rehab. For 18 months after all was good but then he started again.

Most recent ended 13 years ago and he too was an alcoholic but a soppy, happy one whereas ex hubby was violent and abusive.

It is no wonder that I have no interest in men or relationships. Most don't seem able to have a social life without getting drunk. My sister's ex was same and another sister and her husband are both heavy drinkers.

Close relatives

One would get aggressive and abusive, threw plates and smashed other things never usually at anyone though but did cause physical harm to themselves and verbally abusive. More of binging sessions.

Another the complete opposite, would be super out of it they couldn't speak or stand etc. But needed some form of alcohol to function as they would shake and not function properly otherwise. The doctor gave them medication to make them sick when they had alcohol to help discourage it but it had no affect on them. I have further heard that they were secretly verbally abusive and hid their horribleness to most us but was aimed at their partner. They nearly killed themselves unintentionally with alcoholism and cheated death two or three times.

The first person improved massively. The second person it was tough love, their partner after over 20+ years of not sleeping in the same room or being in an actual relationship decided to move away and eventually got a divorce. We had to stand our ground too and set boundaries. Even if they did end up killing themselves over it. Luckily we checked in on them regularly though, it took a fair bit of support from us but it took them to move and have multiple grandchildren to completely change their life around. They should probably never touch alcohol again and they have come very far, but their health will never be what it once was.

My partner and I gave up alcohol, not that we specifically needed to. Occasionally we have VERY low alcohol drinks. Just because we didn't see a need for it, it's expensive, it's usually calorific and the relationship with those above who were/are close to us is too traumatic. I don't particularly like alcohol or what it does to most people

My ex was a secret vodka drinker well he thought he was secret about it, he was put on disciplinary action from two of he's jobs (project manager) for drinking in he's lunch breaks and colleagues smelling it on he's breath, was checked into rehab via bupa and work twice and manipulated he's time there with lies, was a habitual liar about anything & everything, would tear the shopping receipts up but l would get money off coupons in the post from said supermarkets so l knew what he was buying, say he was going to buy a paper / milk and be at least two hour and come back with neither then go and fall asleep in the garden, hide vodka in water bottles all over the garage & house 'once with a whole bottle leaking under the bed pillows, hide vodka in he's car and hide he's car keys hence never knowing where he had put them, deny deny deny when l confronted him with all the above. I finally walked away with just our dog when the alcohol poisoning, shakes, pins and needles and lack of balance still didn't make him admit to he's illness..as addiction is an illness

I have a friend that's a alcholic and has been for over 30 years, she spends her life in and out of rehab, it's so, so sad, I always beleive she turned to drink due to an abusive childhood.

Yes unfortunately, my brother is an alcoholic, it's destroyed his family, he now lives alone in a flat, it's a very sad story

Yes my ex used to drink so much then she turned nuts and always started to row she even beat me up a few times the number of times that police was called by other people in the end after trying to get her help I had to end our relationship

I spent six weeks living with my cousin. I got her completely sober. I left for one night cos her dad was supposed to be going to see her and we always clashed. He didn’t bother turning up sadly she was found dead the next day by her neighbour with two empty vodka bottles. So so sad.

I had a alcoholic friend when I was younger but he died about 20 years ago at the age off 38

It just shows the dangers of alcohol on people's lives, not just the drinker but people around them are affected too. Sorry for your loss. That was a young age to pass away x

I understand Betty Ford have a ward just for insects that bit my parents when they were alive. The biting bugs are still in there trying to recover. My mother died from alcohol abuse and my father from cancer but loved his drink.