Do you ever wake up next to your significant other, gaze into their face and wonder what on earth you ever saw in them?
Does that cute little habit of brushing hair from their eyes start to irritate you, or is the way they always clear their throat before speaking suddenly grating?
Maybe it’s the way they ring you back when it suits them but always take their mother’s calls immediately that gets your goat, or perhaps it’s when they forgot their wallet at your favourite cafe for the third time that has made you snap?
Whatever is yanking your chain, this new clarity means you’re viewing the relationship through a different lens and you know it’s time to reassess your relationship.
Reassessing other bad relationships in your life – could alcohol be one of them?
Is alcohol your go-to emotional support through celebrations, sadness, stress, anxiety and boredom?
If you’re brave enough to examine the relationships in your life, have you thought about looking at where you stand with alcohol? Our alliance with alcohol can often be shrouded with the same dynamics, emotions and drama that cloak other tricky relationships. If you have any concerns about your drinking – even minor ones – it’s worth examining to see if you’re in a healthy place with it.
Here are 10 signs you might be in a bad relationship with alcohol:
You have terrible boundaries – you constantly say ‘never again’ and then go back for more.
You romanticise the good old days – the sparkly, carefree fun times at the beginning – and wish it was like that again.
Your friends and family don’t like it and have told you their concerns.
It’s your go-to emotional support through celebrations, sadness, stress, anxiety and boredom.
You believe you need it to have fun and feel confident.
It’s affecting your health: body, mind and spirit.
Your friends and social life revolve around alcohol.
You put it before relationships with friends and family, and your work.
You can’t live with it and you can’t live without it.
You can’t stop drinking in the way you don’t want to and you can’t stay drinking the way you want to.
Need help with a drinking problem or drug problem?
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