A Very Young Couple Reviews Their Excessive And Hazardous Drinking And Their Short And Long-Term Aspirations, Hopes, And Dreams
Linda and Frank have been dating one another for seven years. They met while taking the same philosophy class at a relatively small, rural, liberal arts college located in the Northern part of the United States. While they were for the most part good friends at first, they finally started to date when they were in their first year of college.
Since both of them came from very "old school" backgrounds, neither one of them drank very much beyond the testing stage when they first began dating. As the time proceeded, nevertheless, they started to go to more keg parties, happy hours, football bashes, and sorority and fraternity parties. As a consequence, they slowly but surely began to drink more as time passed by.
After they graduated, they both got jobs in a large city that was roughly seventy-five miles from their undergraduate college. Then they decided to move into the same apartment together.
With any momentous alteration in an individual's life there is generally something that initiates the specific transformation in question. For Frank and Linda the thought of having children and buying a new house was this "source of change." To come to the point, for the first time in their lives, Frank and Linda began to critically assess their abusive and irresponsible drinking and the long term adverse effects of alcohol on their health. As an example, they began to wonder if they would ever experience an alcohol overdose due to their hazardous and abusive drinking.
Would their abusive and hazardous drinking adversely 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, even though neither one of them ever experienced alcohol poisoning, received a "drunk driving" arrest, or experienced alcohol poisoning symptoms, they understood that their heavy and hazardous drinking was becoming a problem that they could not disregard anymore. All of these inquiries plainly led to the same conclusion, namely that Linda and Frank needed to identify more completely with the fact that they couldn't continue their hazardous and excessive drinking if their goals, dreams, and aspirations were to be brought to fruition.
Once they arrived at this conclusion, they told their drinking friends about their their marital plans, about their plans to start a family, and about their goal of buying or building a new house. They also told their drinking buddies that they still wanted to hang out with them but that they would be drinking responsibly from this point forward so that they could start to realize their future plans, hopes, and dreams.
Unexpectedly, all of their pals expressed relief because they too had been contemplating their lives and concluded that their life-styles were much too often focused on drinking. They also thought that they would have to change drastically if they were to become more accountable and display more care for their careers, their aspirations, and for their health in the next five or ten years.
After their frank chat with their buddies about their hopes, aspirations, and dreams, Frank and Linda in actual fact started to have more meaningful relationships with all of their buddies. The key reason for this was the fact that all of them had the same perspective regarding their abusive drinking and their relatively short and long-term goals, aspirations, and plans.
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