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Addiction & Recovery

Butterbean

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12. That's what we were all saying, that we couldn't handle

Reply to nebenaube (Reply #11)

Fri Aug 16, 2013, 05:09 PM

Aug 2013

that much LIQUID, let alone alcohol. Apparently he's up all night peeing, according to my bff. I regularly see him pound back a case, and every time I see him he is getting drunk or is drunk. However, yeah, that's a crap ton of liquid.

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Help for a friend, please? Wife of an alcoholic. [View all] Butterbean Aug 2013 OP

Well Old Codger Aug 2013 #1

Urgh, thank you. This is why I asked here, because I knew I'd Butterbean Aug 2013 #3

OK Old Codger Aug 2013 #5

Okay, I'll pass that on to her as well. So family members are allowed at AA meetings? Butterbean Aug 2013 #6

anyone can attend an open AA meeting NMDemDist2 Aug 2013 #10

Okee doke, thank you. I'll tell her. I doubt she'd attend the same meetings Butterbean Aug 2013 #13

SHE would greatly benefit from Al-Anon dixiegrrrrl Aug 2013 #2

Thank you. I will tell her what you said, and find the locations and times of some Butterbean Aug 2013 #4

Something I always told the family dixiegrrrrl Aug 2013 #7

Sounds like there's no alcohol in that beer. nebenaube Aug 2013 #8

This is self reporting from the alcoholic. This was what he says he drinks every day. n/t Butterbean Aug 2013 #9

hmmm... nebenaube Aug 2013 #11

That's what we were all saying, that we couldn't handle Butterbean Aug 2013 #12

actually NMDemDist2 Aug 2013 #14

Holy CRAP, really? So that much volume is possible? I warned her about Butterbean Aug 2013 #15

unless he's taken a bunch of xanex or something NMDemDist2 Aug 2013 #17

That's what I thought, thank you. Butterbean Aug 2013 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author Old Codger Aug 2013 #16