Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
I have been sober for 5 years but my boyfriend still drinks. There is always a level of selfishness and being self centered that comes with addiction but I am trying to figure out if his selfishness comes from being an alcoholic or if his selfishness is coming from a whole different monster( a personality disorder). I feel like I have been in a tornado for nine years. He's incapable of feeling empathy for others, he finds a way to make everything about him, for example, the day my father died he started a big fight with his brother while me and my family was grieving, we had to go and break them up. When I had my daughter, he came to the hospital almost five hours late and drunk to pick us up. He lost his mother almost 20 years ago and he uses that to excuse any bad behavior. He has never taken responsibility for any hurt that he has caused. I am just trying to figure out if this is because of addiction, if so there is some hope because maybe one day he will get sober but if that is his personality there is no hope for that. What I listed was just a few things.
That said, I can't keep count of the times I have read of alcoholics coming clean only once their partner/spouse left--and I don't mean that they merely moved out, I mean they threw up their hands, a choice finger, left and moved on.
Although drinking for the purpose of "getting that feeling" or buzz is a self centered action.