Getting Them Sober: You Can Help!
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 at
10:33 pm
- ISBN13: 9780961599591
- Condition: New
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Product Description
Toby Rice Drews draws upon long experience as a therapist to explore the day-by-day practicalities of getting loved ones sober. In the process she maintains professionalism without sacrificing warmth or human sympathy. Forty-one chapters are filled with practical suggestions for coping including being gentle with yourself; don’t pour out the booze; use tough love. This book is a blessing for anyone who has to live with an alcoholic…. More >>
Getting Them Sober: You Can Help!
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Filed under: Treating Alcoholism
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For simplicity in presentation the book is written in the form of the sober wife being married to an alcoholic. Substitute he, she, partner, lover, best friend or whatever and you have a practical guide with sound advice on any topic typically encountered in the living with an alcoholic household. The book is written in short chapters that quickly identify situations and offer practical advice for how to deal with them. Unlike books that offer textbook discussion of what alcoholism is, this book deals with how alcoholism affects you and how you can change to improve your life. It neither advises you to continue living with or to leave your loved one. It does present options and suggestions to deal with your situation. In the process of self improvement, you’ll find more happiness despite your surroundings. And ultimately, your actions may even drive your loved one to get sober. This book is a must for anyone living with an alcoholic.
Rating: 5 / 5
Finally, some PRACTICAL information on how to deal with the addict in your life. It explains how and why the addict tries to control and manipulate you and how you can avoid/deal with it. It also explains why you should work on getting better yourself first, the addict will follow. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book helped me in countless ways. It let me learn how to deal with my alcoholic and taught me to stop trying to save him. It has given me a tremendous amount of insight into my own “helpful” behavior and how damaging this can be. Not to be dramatic, but this little book changed my life for the better.
Rating: 5 / 5
ANYONE living with an alcoholic needs to read this book! Before I read this book, I thought I was the insane one. After reading it I now completely understand the disease of alcoholism. After reading it I could understand why the alcoholic I was living with did the crazy things he did. Every scenario the author wrote about was happening in my household. If you live with an alcoholic, please, please read this book. If you apply the practices the author mentions you will finally have the peace of mind that you deserve!
Rating: 5 / 5
How unique every situation is. Yet how amazingly SIMILAR.
For years you lavish time, love, effort and money on your alcoholic. Around the time you realize they are truly killing themselves, you may also notice the situation is killing you.
Alanon was a waste of time except for hearing the horror stories of people who had spent whole lives living daily tragedies. This book was the wake-up call I needed. It paints no pretty pictures. It looks at the situation realistically. In fact, it is comforting in it’s honesty.
You may stay. You may learn to detach with love. Or you may leave — hoping they will change before it’s too late for your relationship. That’s what I did. I left, hopoing he’d seek help. (He didn’t.) But I saved myself. And I am so much happier now.
Read this book. At least you will have an honest assessment of your situation as others have lived it. If nothing, it will give you a clearer picture of the issues and help you deal with it — if continuing to deal with it is what you choose to do.
Rating: 5 / 5