An alcoholic is hanging on by he skin of his teeth. He rejects every suggestion I give him.
I offer to pick him him and take him to detox.
"I need to pack first," he says.
We tell him to go to detox now. That we can pick up his stuff later. His priority must be recovery. Not packing a bunch of clothes. We can always get more clothing for him.
Then he needs to talk to his family. As if they'd try to talk him out of getting sober. And his boss. He needs to ask his boss for a few days off for personal reasons.
It's always something outside himself that's keeping him from jumping into recovery.
He'll plead his case - his excuses for drinking would pave a freeway.
The reality is that he's not ready. And, as we all know, it took a lot of painful experiences for us to get sober. Let's pray that one of these days he gets enough pain.
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