RE: The Dark Side Has a Key — And Alcohol Knows Where It Is
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Fantastic insight into how alcohol can 'unlock' the worst of us. It's all fun until it isn't. Most of us have seen the impact of alcohol either ourselves or someone else. These days I can't really touch the stuff - it's an ongoing battle to stop my husband (bloody Englishmen) and get him to recognize that alcohol is NOT a reward for a hard day or a job well done, but that it'll give him a sleepless night and a headache and put him on a different plane to me. I think if we weren't together he'd be alcoholic though he swears otherwise! In his younger years and in the early party of our marriage alcohol certainly unlocked some horrible shit. These days he only drinks once in a while and he can stop after two glasses of wine if I give him my look, haha.
Ohhh the wife look. I love that.
I have found myself on every sure of alcohol, the good and bad for myself, and good and bad from others. I relate to what you and your husband have experienced. Most know the dark side.
I have a dopamine addiction- I love being happy and if something is aiding in that happiness it can be difficult to allow myself to get off that ride. I'm pretty good at recognizing if I'm getting to close to crossing that line from the good to bad. But... young me, not so much.
This is what growing up is, adulting self.
My father in law sounds very much like your husband. My mother in law needs to learn your look, and he needs to learn to see. I will write a post, someday soon, about the super expensive bottle of rum I got them for my FIL's 60th and how that led to me not drinking for ~3 years.