Friday, July 04, 2008

Me mate

I have a friend who drinks too much .. there's nothing I can do .. wish I could .. but, obviously, it's up to her whether she buys and drinks what she does. She doesn't read this .. though we are very close .. but, even if she did I doubt if it'd make much difference at the moment.

She's much younger than me .. only in her thirties .. possibly one of the most beautiful women I have met .. like her two daughters .. also very nice and caring .. though that does seem to be lost in the alcohol sometimes now. The friendship faultered a few weeks ago cause of a problem that would never have happened if she didn't drink so much.

Luckily though something happened through a "friend" of ours that pulled her to her senses. I know that what happened will never happen again. She also had a bit of a shock which brought her to her senses along with the "friend".

A few days ago she forgot which daughter has an account on her board. I almost burst into tears .. she's just in her 30s for goodness sake. I couldn't see how she could forget .. she's spoken about it enough. I love her very much and hate seeing this happen to her .. but there's nothing I can do .. she knows that I don't think drinking too much is a good thing but she wont stop unless she wants too. She's had an appalling life in lots of ways though it's not bad now .. she has a lovely partner who is very supportive and really loves her. Obviously she has problems .. but, then everyone does. But, I guess, given some of her life before, it must be very stressful. I think things might be slowly starting to improve .. hope so.

The drinking is mainly at night after he's gone to bed .. he does shift work. Though I am starting to wonder if there's not an occasional drink apart from that too. She says she drinks to relax and to sleep. I wonder if it's to block out memories too .. well, it's certainly doing that. She's getting some pretty bad memory problems from time to time.

There's nothing I or anyone can do .. she buys the stuff and she drinks it.

But .. just in her thirties.

I won't go .. almost did a few weeks ago .. took a long time thinking what to do. I've made the right decision .. but it was tough