WHOSE FAULT IS IT?

[Tammy75]

I am a functioning addict.

I used to know someone like that. She once told me she started drinking in the mornings just to feel "normal" so she could go about the business of her day, that her first drinks of the day weren't even to get drunk but to feel capable. I thought that was so sad.

My dad was like that too. Like most people have a couple cups of coffee before work he'd have a couple glasses of gin.

Ummm, I will still say I am functioning and maybe there will be a day that I need a drink in my coffee but for years my 3-4 glasses of wine in the evenings do me fine. I have never drank during the day, rarely on weekends and never had a work or social or law problem due to my vino.

Now my Grandmother drank a fifth of whiskey everyday until her dogs knocked her down and caused her to break her hip....at age 86