A Very Young Couple Appraises Their Irresponsible And Abusive Drinking And Their Short And Long-Term Dreams, Aspirations, And Hopes

Frank and Linda have been dating for four-and-a-half years. They met while enrolled in the same human geography class at a relatively small, country, private liberal arts college located in the Southern part of the United States. While they were mainly good pals at first, they finally started to date when they were in their first year of college.

Due to the fact both of them came from very strict backgrounds, neither one of them drank very much beyond the experimental stage when they first began dating. As the time proceeded, however, they began to go to more football bashes, keg parties, happy hours, and sorority and fraternity parties. As a consequence, they over time began to drink increasingly more the longer they dated.

After they graduated, they both landed jobs in a large city located nearly eighty miles from their undergraduate college. Then they at long last decided to move in with each other.

With any big change in a person's life there is typically something that triggers the particular modification in question. For Linda and Frank the thought of buying a new house and having children was this "source of change." In short, for the first time in their lives, Linda and Frank started to critically review their hazardous drinking and the alcohol long term effects on their lives. As an example, they began to wonder if they would ever experience an alcohol overdose due to their irresponsible and hazardous drinking.

Would their abusive and heavy drinking negatively affect their ability to have children? How would they be able to continue spending nearly all of their money on drinking if they were to begin saving for a new house?

From a different slant on things, although neither one of them ever suffered from alcohol poisoning, received a DWI arrest, or experienced alcohol poisoning symptoms, they understood that their heavy drinking was becoming a thorny issue that they could not ignore anymore. All of these queries clearly pointed to the same conclusion, namely that Linda and Frank needed to understand more fully that they couldn't maintain their abusive and heavy drinking if their plans, hopes, and dreams were to be completed.

Once they arrived at this conclusion, they informed their drinking friends about their their marital plans, about their goal of buying or building a new house, and about their plans to start a family. They also told their drinking friends that they still wanted to hang out with them but that they would be drinking responsibly from this moment forward so that they could start to realize their future dreams, plans, and hopes.

Unexpectedly, all of their friends expressed relief because they too had been reevaluating their lives and concluded that their life-styles were much too frequently focused on drinking. They also understood that they would have to change substantially if they were to become more responsible and manifest more forethought for their health, their plans, and for their careers in the next ten or fifteen years.

After their frank discussion with their pals about their hopes, dreams, and plans, Linda and Frank in actual fact started to have more meaningful relationships with all of their buddies. The fundamental reason for this was the fact that all of them had the same state of mind regarding their excessive and heavy drinking and their short and long-term aspirations, goals, and plans.