My mum has always liked a drink, but I think that she now has a problem. She's not a whiskey on her cornflakes full blow alcoholic yet, but I do think she's got a dependency. She drinks every day, never has a break and can easily sink a bottle of wine, sometimes even more, in one evening. She will then pass out on the sofa in front of the TV until my dad wakes her up and tells her to go to bed.
She admits to needing a drink to unwind at night, and if she is stressed she will reach for a glass. I think when you've got to this stage you've already developed a problem personally.
It goes beyond the household drinking stuff though, because when she goes out she doesn't know when to stop and quite frankly she becomes a nightmare. She's loud, lairy and sometimes even rude to people. I think she's an embarrassing mess and privately my dad has confided in me that he feels the same way. Other family members have also started to comment on it, but she's incredibly touchy about the subject of her drinking. It's the elephant in the room and any comment about it, even made jokingly will be met by huge offence that someone has even dared to suggest she drinks too much.
Recently she decided to try and cut back a bit to loose weight, and she went a while fortnight without a drop. She admitted she felt so much better, had more energy, slept better at night etc She then started drinking again and has gone right back to square one, also now she's done a fortnight without a drink she thinks that it means she doesn't have a problem. But it doesn't work like that, does it?
It so awful, I don't know how to deal with it. She's a pisshead isn't she?