I was looking for the deeper why, the one that involves you not trying to fix her with YOUR IC time...
The one where you LEAD your family through this without sacrificing yourself to do it....
What else did you work through ???
We spent most of the time working on my ideas of me being selfish. We spent time on getting me to do things for myself and talked about how I need to take time for myself. We also talked about my relationships with my family which are strained right now.
I looked at this as an opportunity to learn about addiction or just the effects of the Xanax and alcohol. I really don't know much about alcohol abuse or addiction and I could have read up about it on the internet, but I thought talking to someone who actually knows what they are talking about when it comes to these addictions because she deals with it with patients everyday would be a opportunity for me. My IC explained the dangers of mixing the Xanax and alcohol I feel better than I could have gotten by reading something online or out of a book. She also gave me ideas about how to approach my W with these concerns which I feel worked. My W and my conversation about the drinking went way better than I could have imagined and I have my IC to thank for that because I didn't know how to approach my W with my concerns before talking to my IC.
M39, W36 T12, M10 S6,S2 Discovered EA 8/8 that started 7/31
