I started drinking with my friends, and on Fridays we got into the habit of going out drinking. What I want to tell you is that nothing works out well for me. I think that I have bad luck.... In the last few months I have lost a lot of things.... When I buy something [...]
My relationship with my mother was very weak because she was an alcoholic.... It was so difficult that she eventually decided to move to another country. When she had been there for seven years, she got infected with AIDS and died. That was six years ago. I couldn’t go to help her, to be with [...]
Lately my life has been a disaster.... I’ve had problems with my wife, and we are in the beginning stages of a divorce.... I have gotten in the habit of drinking almost every day, and one of those times when I was drunk... I stole some electronic equipment from a friend. I ended up returning [...]
I am the mother of two [young] children.... I am an alcoholic. My mother has drunk alcoholic beverages all of her life.... I have never made a home with anyone, not even the father of my children. I don’t want commitments with anyone — only with my mother and my children. The problem is that [...]
I am twenty‑four years old. About six years ago I met a guy. We started going out, but he deceived me a number of times and then met another girl and left me to be with her for a year.... Now he left the girl and has come back to me. Since then I don’t [...]
I have been married to an alcoholic for eight years.... A while back I met a man my own age on the Internet, and I thought I was madly in love with him. He took advantage of the situation and asked me for money, and on many occasions I gave him what he wanted. But [...]
I need help in making a decision. I have four children... The oldest, who is fifteen years old, is using drugs. He has been suspended from schools several times for fighting, and just now they found drugs on him and have suspended him again. I am desperate and don’t know what to do. I am [...]
My life had always been peaceful, as I dedicated myself to my work and to my studies. Nevertheless, in 2001 a colleague invited me to visit a casino with him. Since I had never been in a casino with slot machines before..., he suggested that I just put a coin into a slot, so I [...]
One day at the university, someone invited me out for a drink, which led to my downfall. The cursed habit of alcohol caused me to fail my entire family. Now I am a professional and I work in the industrial sector, but I can’t stop drinking. It’s incredible how hard it is to quit. A [...]
