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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She claims she will go to AA, etc. all the stuff you would want to hear. But in my opinion, talk is cheap. Who knows if she will really follow through? I feel like she nearly needs an intervention, and even that might not help. [/quote]

If you think she has a drinking problem and needs an intervention, why are you enabling her by bailing her out on this DUI?[/quote]

I guess if helping her pay for a lawyer is enabling, then yes, I'm enabling her. I don't see how her losing her job and potentially losing her kids is going to help.

Anyway, update. I talked to her again this morning and told her I'm not telling my parents but that she needs to. They already know something is up because she sent my dad a vague text that she needs help but isn't ready to tell him why yet. So they know something bad has happened. I think she will tell them of her own accord in the next few days. [/quote]

You are absolutely enabling her if you're going to pay $10k that you don't have to help her fight something she's completely guilty of. You are doing everything in your power to keep your sister from suffering any consequences of her drinking, which is pretty much the opposite of what she needs right now. Your sister isn't going to get sober until she's really afraid she has something to lose, but thanks to you she doesn't need to be afraid.[/quote]

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