A Young Couple Evaluates Their Abusive and Hazardous Drinking and Their Short and Long-Term Dreams, Plans, and Hopes

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A Young Couple Evaluates Their Abusive and Hazardous Drinking and Their Short and Long-Term Dreams, Plans, and Hopes

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Augie and Merissa have been dating for five-and-a-half years. They met while taking the same micro computer class at a small, countryside, liberal arts college located in the Southern part of the United States. While they were mainly good buddies at first, they at long last began dating when they were in their third year of college.

Given the fact that both of them came from very conservative backgrounds, neither one of them drank very much beyond the casual drinking stage when they first started to date. As the time passed by, nevertheless, they started to go to more keg parties, happy hours, sorority and fraternity parties, and football bashes. As a consequence, they progressively began to drink increasingly more as they proceeded in their relationship.

Their Social Life Usually Consisted of Going to Restaurants Three or Four Nights Per Week, Going to Happy Hour With Their Friends, Going to Parties With Their Friends, Going to Professional Sporting Events, and Going With Their Friends to the Local Saloon on the Weekends

After they graduated, they both landed jobs in a relatively large city located around fifty miles from their undergraduate college. Then they at long last made up their mind to move in with each other.

Given the fact that they were far removed from the college drinking scene, nonetheless, their social life generally consisted of going to professional sporting events, going to happy hour with their friends, going to restaurants three or four nights per week, going to parties with their friends, and going to the local cabaret with their friends on the weekends. In a word, Augie and Merissa began drinking in an abusive manner.

Now that they were living with each other and starting to get more resolute about their relationship, nonetheless, they started to think about having children, buying a house, getting married, and becoming more responsible.

With any big modification in a person’s life there is regularly something that triggers the particular transformation in question. For Merissa and Augie the idea of buying a new house and having children was this “trigger.” In short, for the first time in their lives, Merissa and Augie began to think about their abusive and excessive drinking and the long term effects of alcohol on their health.

How Would Their Excessive and Abusive Drinking Affect Their Relationship With Their Parents, Their Finances, Their Relationship With One Another, Their Mental Health, and Their Ability to Have Children?

Would their drinking behavior adversely affect their ability to have children? How would they be able to continue spending most of their money on drinking if they were to start saving for a new house? How responsible would they be if they had children and continued to drink in a hazardous manner? How would they be able to face their parents and tell them about their long term dreams, plans, and hopes while they still drank in an excessive and abusive manner while having fun as they did when they were in college? What would their abusive and heavy drinking do to their relationship? How would their heavy and irresponsible drinking affect their mental health?

From a different viewpoint, although neither one of them ever suffered from alcohol poisoning, received a DUI, or experienced alcohol withdrawal symptoms, they realized that their heavy drinking was becoming an issue that they could not ”sweep under the carpet” any longer.

After Giving Their State of Affairs Considerable Deliberation, Merissa and Augie Finally Comprehended That Their Dreams, Aspirations, and Hopes Would not be Attained if They Continued Their Hazardous and Excessive Drinking

All of these questions undoubtedly resulted in the same conclusion: Augie and Merissa needed to be more aware that they couldn’t continue their hazardous and irresponsible drinking if their dreams, aspirations, and goals were to be realized.

Once they came to this conclusion, they informed their drinking friends about their their goal of buying or building a new house, about their plans to start a family, and about their marital plans. They also told their drinking friends that they still wanted to hang out with them but that they would be drinking in strict moderation from this moment forward so that they could begin realizing their future aspirations, dreams, and goals.

Shockingly, all of their pals expressed relief because they too had been recalculating their lives and concluded that their life-styles were much too frequently focused on drinking. They also felt that they would have to change radically if they were to become more accountable and exhibit more care for their health, their plans, and for their careers in the next fifteen or twenty years.

After their heart-to-heart discussion with their friends about their aspirations, dreams, and goals, Merissa and Augie in effect started to have more meaningful relationships with all of their friends. The primary reason for this was the fact that all of them had the same attitude regarding their hazardous and heavy drinking and their short and long-term aspirations, plans, and goals.

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