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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What defines an alcoholic on this forum? A beer every night? Or downing an entire bottle of vodka a night? Or a glass of wine a week?

Cause almost every post here has been about how “my spouse is an alcoholic”.  [/quote]

Being an alcoholic is not about how much a person drinks, it's about whether their drinking interferes with their ability to function.[/quote]

Ok. Keep telling yourself this lie and it is a lie.

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Not sure why my comment seemed to strike a chord with you?  What about what I said above is a lie?  I may be mistaken, and I am certainly no expert on alcoholism, but what I have been told by an addiction counselor who is currently working with my family is that the ability to tolerate alcohol varies from person to person.  A small woman might be able to drink much less than a large man, and have the alcohol impair her functioning in a way that it doesn't for the man.  My point being that you cannot simply say that having X number of glasses of wine etc a day, a week, a month, makes you an alcoholic.[/quote]

I think it strikes a chord because it's coming from an alcoholic in denial because he doesn't drink everyday, or he doesn't drink a fifth of vodka at a time, so he can't possibly be an alcoholic and he's tired of his wife nagging him about it.[/quote]

Touche[/quote]

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