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 in my life got mad, they thought they [...]
The process of learning how to protect yourself through setting boundaries takes time. Alcoholics can have a tendency to belittle those around them. Enabling them to heap unacceptable behavior upon us can become a way of life. We must learn a few emotional tools to use in order to protect ourselves from the many insults [...]