He's been at it for a while. His drinking partner girl friend is deathly ill from the effects of alcohol. And he doesn't know how to care for her.
The manager he called suggests - not very gently - that he can't take care of himself. Let alone someone else.
And, of course, we'll let him come back. We'll help her too - if she's able to take part in the program. But it's sad that it came to this.
A few years ago, when they got together, someone suggested it wasn't a good idea. Our experience has been that two alcoholics in new recovery don't have the best chance. Same for addicts.
And when they end up in a situation where both are drinking - as we predicted - they think we're psychic. They're surprised that it happened just as we predicted.
But it doesn't take a crystal ball. The idea that two people without much recovery will gain strength from one another is questionable. Most of the time it doesn't work.
True, we have couples in recovery on our management team. But those successful relationships didn't start until each of them had some years of recovery.
The idea that one can leave a halfway house or treatment program and jump into a relationship is not good thinking.
As we see in this man's case.
