Full Time Care

One of the hardest things to deal with as a full time carer living with someone bordering on alcoholism isn’t the evening of inebriation. Of course, that’s pretty difficult, as some of my posts indicate! Still, the really tough part is the aftermath. The next day.

My partner usually spends the day after a drinking session recovering: in her case, this means sleeping most of the day. She’s someone who needs a lot of sleep anyway (her average of nine or ten hours is significantly larger than mine, down near four or six), but after a session she’ll just stay in bed and effectively lose an entire 24-hour period.
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