Yes , i remember that step, my son apologised to me, my husband and his sister for all the S**t he’s put us through.
Dan, my son phoned around 3am this morning. He was frantic saying, he was ‘rattling ‘ I guess he had shakes or something. Told us he needed to have some alcohol ASAP. If not he said he would need to call an ambulance. I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t want to enable him, but he said the Big Book says when that happens, you need to take some alcohol to calm it until he slept.
I didn’t know whether to believe him or not, but my husband ended up dropping off a bottle with some gin in it.
He phoned later in the morning to say thanks for doing that, but we told him we wouldn’t be doing it again.
Did we do the right thing? My anxiety was through the roof thinking about it.
So it looks like he’s drinking often but managing to work, i guess what you’d call a functioning alcoholic. So sad to hear him like this, I said at the time, maybe medical intervention might be what you need atm.
I told him he needed to seek support or his future could be very bleak.
I’m sorry if I’m unloading but only a person in recovery could answer this , can’t discuss it with anyone else really.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Lx