A Young Couple Reviews Their Drinking Behavior And Their Short And Long Range Dreams, Hopes, And Plans
March 6, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Frank and Linda have been dating one another for five-and-a-half years. They met while enrolled in the same astronomy class at a relatively large, rural, Church affiliated liberal arts college located in the Northern part of the United States. While they were in essence good pals at first, they finally started to date when they were in their third year of college.
Due to the fact both of them came from very "old school" backgrounds, neither one of them drank much social drinking stage when they first began dating. As the time passed by, however, they started to go to more happy hours, football bashes, keg parties, and sorority and fraternity parties. Consequently, they over time began to drink more as time went by.
After they graduated from college, they both found employment in a relatively large city located roughly fifty miles from their undergraduate college. Then they at long last made up their mind to move into the same apartment together.
With any important alteration in an individual's life there is commonly something that forces the particular transformation in question. For Frank and Linda the notion of buying a new house and having children was this "trigger." In brief, for the first time in their lives, Frank and Linda began to critically assess their excessive and abusive drinking and the long term adverse effects of alcohol on their health. As an illustration, they started to wonder if they would ever experience an alcohol overdose due to their irresponsible drinking.
Would their irresponsible and excessive drinking unfavorably affect their ability to have children? How would they be able to continue spending so much money on drinking if they were to begin saving for a new house?
From a different perspective, even though neither one of them ever experienced alcohol poisoning, received a DUI arrest, or experienced alcohol poisoning symptoms, they realized that their heavy and irresponsible drinking was becoming a reality that they could not overlook anymore. All of these inquiries plainly resulted in the same conclusion, namely that Linda and Frank needed to identify more completely with the fact that they couldn't continue their hazardous and excessive drinking if their dreams, hopes, and plans were to be completed.
Once they got to this conclusion, they alerted their drinking pals about their their marital plans, about their plans to start a family, and about their goal of buying or building a new house. They also told their drinking buddies that they still wanted to associate with them but that they would be drinking in strict moderation from this point forward so that they could start to realize their future aspirations, dreams, and goals.
Much to their surprise, all of their pals expressed relief because they too had been reappraising their lives and concluded that their life-styles were totally centered around drinking. They also thought that they would have to change radically if they were to become more mature and show more care for their careers, their health, and for their aspirations in the next fifteen or twenty years.
After their heart-to-heart discussion with their buddies about their plans, dreams, and hopes, Linda and Frank in essence started to have more meaningful relationships with all of their pals. The main reason for this was the fact that all of them were on the same wave-length regarding their heavy and hazardous drinking and their short and long-term goals, aspirations, and plans.
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