Dear Suz, My wife gave me the ultimatum of therapy or she’d leave me. The counselor’s making me swallow some hard truths that’s killing me. I know I’m controlling but it’s made me a success in business. My childhood was chaotic with both parents angry alcoholics.
Dear Child of Alcoholics. Admitting you’re controlling is a major first step, but it’s not enough. Forced counseling doesn’t usually work. Many children of alcoholics have adult relationship problems: need for control, fear of intimacy and trust, jealousy, substance abuse. Own your issues if you want to really change. Do your wife a favor and divorce her now if you can’t (or won’t) do the hard work to be a better husband and partner. -SQ
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