The Weight of Living with an Alcoholic

Living with an alcoholic rewires your entire nervous system. First insight: hypervigilance.

You're constantly scanning for signs, reading tones, and checking bottle levels.

Years later, you still catch yourself monitoring people's drinks at parties. Second,

you lose trust in your own reality. That's the gaslighting. Third,

the isolation is suffocating. You shrink yourself to manage their chaos.

Therapy becomes essential to relearn that love isn't walking on eggshells. Healing means finally

learning what healthy actually looks like.