My boyfriend is a recovering cocaine addict, am i wrong to ask him not to drink?
Posted by adminMar 31
My boyfreind had a drug problem a few years back then he only used occasionally. For the first six months of our relationship he lied to me and was doing coke occasionally… maybe a few times a month. I gave him an ultimatum to either go to NA or i could no longer be with him. He goes but i don’t believe he thinks he ever had a real problem. He stopped drinking to be with me for a few months but now has a “few” drinks socially. I hate it and have asked him to stop…. but he says it is fun, he works hard and thinks there is no problem with it because he is NOT an alcoholic. I don’t feel any addict should drink. He says i watch too much tv and that is where my ideas come from. He is an outrageous guy but i see this eventually being the reason we break-up. My dad is an alcoholic and he believes this is why i don’t want him drinking. This is FALSE though, i just know he has an addictive personality. Am i wrong to ask him not to drink? It hurts me so bad but he says it’s unfair. Help!
3 comments
Comment by Susan L on 03/31/2010 at 7:09 pm
yes, you’re being selfish. if the man occasionally wants a drink then let him without making him feel guilty, if it isn’t out of hand then you should have no reason to control it.
Comment by JB on 03/31/2010 at 7:31 pm
You are correct to ask him not to drink. He’s substituting one addiction for another.
Comment by ltl_wmn on 03/31/2010 at 8:05 pm
Well, if he doesn’t or didn’t think he really had a problem and he didn’t initiate the change, he will probably go back to some addiction or another. It goes back to the saying, you can’t change someone, he has to want all of it and admit he had a problem before. I’ve been clean for almost 19 years, my choice, no one elses. There are really lots of fish in the sea.