EP 568: Reader's Question - How do I deal with a husband who wants me to drink with him all the time?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Often the hardest part of our journey, when we go alcohol-free, isn’t really our own path, it’s the journey others go on with us. Dealing with change is hard and that is also true for loved ones who we have always indulged before. And often that shows us pressure to drink from a loved one. Annie answers why we feel pressure to drink, and why it really isn’t about us and gives valuable advice on how to gracefully handle the situation while respecting your personal boundaries.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the Alcohol Experiment, a free 30-day challenge designed to interrupt
0:05.4	your patterns, give you control, restore your health and put you back in touch with the version of you
0:10.8	who doesn't eat alcohol to cope, relax or enjoy life. More than 220,000 people have already tried
0:17.0	the alcohol experiment for themselves and has seen improved sleep, increased happiness,
0:21.4	reduced anxiety and so much more. Join thousands in this inspiring, hopeful and exciting program,
0:27.2	we examine your beliefs and reconnect with the best version of you without ever feeling like
0:32.0	you're missing out. Start today for free at alcoholexperiment.com.
0:37.7	Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this Snake at Mind podcast and today I am answering
0:42.0	questions from you all, from people in our programs, some people who write in and so enjoy.
0:46.9	So how do I deal with a husband who wants me to drink with him all the time? So we have a course
0:52.0	helping loved one which is so powerful for this and if you join the path program of course that's
0:57.6	included and so it really helps with them helping you and you helping them because there's so much
1:05.6	about the conversation there often at the root of somebody who wants you to drink with them all
1:11.2	the time there's fear. It's at the root of most human behavior. He probably doesn't actually care very
1:16.2	much whether you ingest the substance of ethanol slash alcohol in your body. What he cares about
1:23.5	is if you don't drink do you think you're too good for him? If you don't drink might he lose you?
1:29.4	If you don't drink will things change? If you don't drink will you be judging him?
1:34.7	And so his fear of things were a certain way now that are changing is at the root of that generally.
1:42.0	And so what I suggest is lots of different ways to make sure that you help him know that things
1:48.4	aren't changing that you're doing this for you and I really detail that out in the helping. I
1:52.4	loved one course but in a nutshell it's all about just making sure that the people we love
1:59.5	know that we love them first and our love for them has nothing to do with whether we're drinking
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