Full Time Care

My lady and I had an interesting chat this morning over our coffee, despite being half-asleep. With an interview coming up soon for some voluntary work, she was trying to figure out her ’schedule’ of drinking, so that she could organise the right day for the meeting and break the two-day cycle of alcohol at the same time.

It was while we were talking about this that she suddenly thanked me for being open to discuss the problem so easily. I’d never really thought about it like that, but apparently she finds it a huge help in her recovery: she can talk about when she wants to drink, how often and her plans for the days to come without fear of reprisal or of me getting upset and annoyed.

I suppose it’s partly down to my personality type: I’m not one to hold grudges or to dislike someone because they hurt me once or twice. I’ll assume, until proven otherwise, that they’re just having a bad day or that there’s some other kind of influence that’s affected them. This ability to debate the relative merits of drinking on certain days without getting all emotional has turned out to be a real feather in my cap, as it were.

So much for people considering the Capricorn traits of being cold and aloof as a negative, eh?

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