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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's always interesting in these threads is how important it is for some posters to avoid the label alcoholic. If OP's husband needs to drink that much and can't do without it, he has a problem.  It doesn't matter whether you call him an alcoholic or not.

George W. Bush quit drinking and drugging and never called himself an alcoholic.  Seems to me that he did what he needed to do and that's what was important. If he didn't want to call himself an alcoholic, that's his business.

(BTW this is not an endorsement for Bush who sucked as a president.)[/quote]

This.  My mom says that alcohol "didn't agree with her."  She has been in AA for 24 years and actively works on her recovery.  She drank 2 - 3 glasses of wine every night and felt like it became an essential part of her day that she couldn't do with out.  She craved it and as a result felt shame and embarrassment when she couldn't stop for more than a day at a time.  But she certainly wasn't a drunk - never once do I remember seeing her affected by alcohol.

Some people seem more preocuppied with the label than with the dependency that indicates a serious problem. [/quote]

I'm sorry, but if your mom went to AA for two glasses of wine a night, then her real problem was either with shame and embarassment, not alcoholism.  Either that, or she was drinking a lot more than she told you.  [/quote]Different poster here.  Her problem was obviously that she couldn't [i]stop[/i] drinking for very long. That's what a number of posters have been saying. If you [i]need[/i] to have two drinks a night, you have a problem.  If you can take it or leave it - as most people can - then it's not a big deal.[/quote]

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