Im currently in lockdown with my parents and have been since mid March. DM is in her mid 60's now and has always liked a drink. However its only since we've gone into lockdown and im at home with them all day everyday that the realisation has dawned on me how bad things have got. She drinks every single day, starting at about 3pm, even earlier on weekends and Bank Holidays and knocks back an astonishing ammount of alcohol. For example today alone she has drunk two small bottles of beer a whole bottle of prosseco to herself and has just cracked open a bottle of gin. She gets through two bottles of gin a week easily and god knows how many bottles of wine. It gives me hangover just thinking about it.
She's slurring most days by about 7pm and will be passed out on the sofa by 9pm. She's ballooned in weight over the last few weeks with a huge spare tyre appearing around her middle and seems genuinely confused as to why, because she's 'not eating that much' and is going out walking around the block most days. She also has dreadful breaths and smells weird if you stand to close to her.
It's very concerning obviously. DF has admitted to me he belives her to be an alcoholic and has resigned himself to it I think. But when I tentively suggested the other day that she was drinking too much and maybe a few days off we be helpful she jumped down my throat. We've got an awkward relationship and so its pretty hard to broach the subject without causing a row, and obviously being lockdown and not being able to go anywhere else im not wanting to rock the boat.
Apparently she's been like this for a 'while' according to DF, but she didn't used to start drinking till 5pm before lockdown, which isn't late either. I'm genuinely at a loss about what to do?