How Do You Support Your Partner Who's Trying To Change Their Drinking Habits?
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | the virtue. Hey, you want to be supportive of your partner, no matter what unconditionally, |
| 0:07.4 | right? Just sometimes you just don't know what that looks like though, and how to help |
| 0:12.4 | out and how to support. Well, that's why you have the whole for better for worse in the |
| 0:16.1 | vows. Like you take them at their best and you take them at their worst and you try to |
| 0:19.5 | figure out a way to get through it. That's not what I'm putting in my vows. For better |
| 0:22.6 | for worse. Just for better. Okay. So long as things are cool and we're getting along. |
| 0:29.5 | Uh-huh. And things don't get too rocky then we can hang out forever. That's fair. I'm |
| 0:34.0 | sure that's I think that's going to go over swimmingly. I don't write that down. That's |
| 0:37.4 | a very poetic. So Cassia as a friend, that's kind of going through this right now. Once |
| 0:42.6 | to support, but just doesn't know how to do it. It's pretty serious. Yeah. My friends |
| 0:46.4 | husband has decided that he is, he's starting AA. He, they don't have problems in their |
| 0:53.3 | relationship because of it. It's not sort of like he's not at rock bottom or anything, |
| 0:57.1 | but he just kind of feels out of control around alcohol and has decided since it runs in |
| 1:02.7 | his family, he wants to try and do something about it preemptively before it's a runaway |
| 1:07.4 | train for him. So he has started going to AA meetings and my friend is super supportive |
| 1:13.0 | of this like wants to have his back, but she doesn't really know how to help him. Because |
| 1:19.4 | he said like you don't need to stop drinking. You don't need to like change what you do. |
| 1:23.4 | I don't mind if alcohol is in the house and she wants to follow his lead, but she also |
| 1:27.9 | doesn't know if maybe that's not the best idea, but she's kind of afraid of offending |
| 1:32.0 | him if she does remove all the alcohol from the house. And so we were talking and she's |
| 1:36.8 | like, I don't know how to be a supportive partner to him. Besides being there and being |
| 1:40.5 | like, yes, I got you do what you need to do. I'll take you to the meetings. If you, |
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