(February 19, 2016 at 12:19 am)Aroura Wrote:(February 18, 2016 at 10:15 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Hopefully she can see the benefit of abandoning alcohol, no matter what your beliefs are. Your beliefs don't make her drink; she makes herself drink.
I can understand wanting to be considerate of her feelings, but you're assuming responsibility which isn't yours in assuming that you've caused, or extended, her drinking.
Oh no, I don't think I caused it. She's been drinking heavily LONG before she knew I was an atheist.
I'm just assuming some responsibility for helping her get better. I can't make her, but I can try and motivate her. I'm her daughter and she's been a good mother, and by default I have some responsibility to try, just as she would feel to help me if I needed it. To just say "she chose, her own fault" is too callous for me. I am not so dismissive of even criminals, let alone my own mother.
Just be careful not to get sucked into the disease. After years in AlAnon dealing with my mother's disease, I know how taking some responsibility for helping them get better can spiral out of control. When dealing with addicts, you have to create and fiercely maintain boundaries. It ends up better for both of you. Sometimes the most supportive thing you can do is not support.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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