The Power of Persistence in Reinforcing Boundaries With Alcoholics

You cannot back down once you begin to change how you interact with alcoholics. Consistency and persistence are very crucial to your success. In other words- don’t give up no matter how much resistance you may have to contend with in relation to the boundaries you’ve set.

Imagine yourself and the boundary as being a large [...]


No Name Calling | Horrible Names Not Allowed

This is something that took me a while to learn how to do, I had to start standing up for my self. When setting boundaries, one if the things I had to do was tell the problem drinker to stop calling me horrible names. When the alcoholic I was living with  got mad, they thought [...]