"Today I love an alcoholic"

This is what Sue Drum from the Gottawanna Group in California likes to say.  That she loves an alcoholic.  I enjoy listening to her online speaker tapes.  Sue gets so down-to-earth, real about her recovery and what it has taken her to do the work.              Sue Drum---working the Steps in Al-Anon

Maria V. from the Creedmore AFG always says, "Alcoholics need love, too."

"A family member has no more right to state, "If you loved me you would not drink," than the right to say, "If  you loved me you would not have diabetes."  Excessive drinking is a symptom of the disease.  It is a condition, not an act."---from A Guide for the Family of the Alcoholic

There is a blog titled "The Immortal Alcoholic" about Riley's later stages of alcoholism as he's dying and his wife, Linda is writing the blog.  Not to judge or anything like that, it seems to me the blog's title might be better suited as, "The Die-Hard Al-Anon".  For every alcoholic there's usually a good little enabler around that co-signs the B.S.

I hate the disease.  I do not go to AA and Al-Anon meetings because I'm cured, know-it-all, my life is smooth sailing all the way, and perfect.  I continue to go because this is a necessary part of recovery from an incurable, lifelong illness that I live and need help with.

I live with an active drinker and today I can say I love him.  GOD help me, one day at a time, to work the Steps to freedom from the bondage of self.