Reality Bites!!!!

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So today, my friend who has the alcoholic boyfriend came over this morning. After the small talk, she said, Rosie, I needed you this morning. I asked her why and she said that she tried to stand in front of the door and prevent him to go buy a beer and he pushed her out of the way. It was perfect timing, because just last night I had printed information for her about alcoholism from MayoClinic.com. I started to lecturing her again about how he needs the beer and you can not stop him. She is still in denial. Then I got the paper and started reading parts of it to her. Then I told her that this is why she needs to stop drinking. She says, I am not an alcoholic. I said, he did not start off being an alcoholic either. She goes, what am I suppose to do, totally give up drinking? I said, that is up to you. As I was really telling her that there is no turning back for him now, that he either goes to rehab or drinks himself to death, I saw her wipe a tear from her eye. Then she started saying that he has changed and he is mean. I told her, stop trying to prevent him from getting what he needs. I told her that it is not about her and that she should not take it personal. I know that eventually having to let go one way or the other is going to be very, very hard for her. We both have crippling fears of abandonment. She is saying now that it will not affect her and she has already prepared herself. We all know that there is no way to fully prepare for something like this. Later on, we were in his room and I was getting him to talk about his feelings. He was saying that he liked it and never wanted to stop. I said, well aren't you tired of the throwing up every day. He admitted that he was. He also said that the beer was keeping him from having seizures. I calmly corrected that myth. I was really starting to get through to him, without him getting defensive when the girlfriend jumped up and announced that she was ready to leave immediately to go eat. I had to leave with her because I don't feel comfortable being online in his room with him and I knew she wanted me to eat with her. So I reluctantly left the room.