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Is my girlfriend an alcoholic?

post #1 of 58
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so my girlfriend used to be a one or two cigarette a day girl before and she also liked to have between half a bottle to a bottle of wine with her friends to wind down. now she'd only drink with her friend about 3-4 times a week so i wouldnt consider it a problem.
so i got her to get on the patch and quit smoking. she's now going onto two weeks.

well with her drinking she would always come back into the apartment after drinking outside with her friend and do or say funny things. well the next morning id always crack jokes at her the next morning about what she would do or say. well she would call me "elephant man" and would always hate that i did that to her. so after a couple times whenever she would drink she would just be mad and shut the door or just look at me in disgust. well she toned down her drinking for the past couple months and whenever she did drink, we would drink together and it would be a great time for both of us.

well tonight she went out with her girlfriends and i picked her up because i stayed in tonight. well when she came home today she emptied her purse in the car for some reason and threw her makeup on the dash and it broke and sent powder everywhere. well it ended up staining the a-piller in the car so that sent her into a tiff. well she started saying how much she hated her life and she hated her car and she wants to move back home. she got on her laptop and when she tried to login she couldnt get it right so she pull back to throw it but i grabbed onto it and told her to calm down. she started yelling at me to give it back and said she would do whatever she wanted with it. well i went and locked myself in her bathroom and she proceeded to throw whatever she could find at the door and then used a decortive candle holder and swung it like a baseball bat and put a hole in the door. when she couldnt get in she went outside and threw a rock threw the outside bathroom window.

well at this point the neighbors, who we are all friends with were coming out, so i ent out grabbed her and brought her in. i pulled her into the bedroom and just layed with while she was crying about not knowing what was going on with her and she wants to go home. now she is asleep and im just confused about how to approach this.

whats next
post #2 of 58
i think being an alcoholic has more to do with how often and how much you drink, not how you react to drinking. i would say shes more of a angry drunk than an alcoholic.
post #3 of 58
wow...for you to put up with all this, she must be really really reeeeally hot.
i have no suggestions for how to handle this but i admire your zen like patience to even make it this far
post #4 of 58
This thread saddens me. I"ve been there and maybe I just lack faith in humanity, but I don't see this ending well.

You obviously love her enough to want to help - but will she let you? Nobody but her can say.

Sorry dude.
post #5 of 58
Alcoholic? No.

but she is apparently and definitely host to a lot of other psychological problems.
post #6 of 58
I'd say that alcoholism is a possibility if her life is unmanageable due to her drinking. If this type of episode happens over and over and is affecting her relationships and making her life unmanageable, then maybe alcoholism is a possibility. I'm not sure that this behaviour is normal "3 or 4 times a week". Maybe it's compulsive behaviour and she has a problem in some other area of her life (which you mentioned that she said she and it comes out when she drinks? Not sure just by one internet post. It sounds like there's something going on that she (and you) needs to look at...
post #7 of 58
Like West24 said, it usually has more to do with how much and how much reliance she has on the sauce. Your way of telling the story is as interesting as the story itself. You say "well" a lot as if you expect to put up with her bullshit. She clearly has issues, though. Find out if she can deal with them without alcohol. If she can't, personal experience with friends says reliance on alcohol to deal with issues quickly leads to problems.
post #8 of 58
Sounds like she wants to move back home. Unless she's asking you for help you should let her. I don't think she's an alcoholic, just self-medicating.
post #9 of 58
Alcoholic? I don't think so.

Meth head? Sure as hell sounds like it.

I just don't see someone acting like this after the booze. Like Slim said, this is not going to end well, no matter how much you love her. You know what's going to happen? She's going to throw a tantrum, you're going to try to save her from herself by pulling her in or holding her, and she's going to have you arrested for assault. Your life will be ruined/tainted by a violent criminal history, and she will spit on you for it.

If you want my opinion, run. Run away, and don't look back. There's too many bigger fish in the sea.
post #10 of 58
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Originally Posted by Ludeykrus View Post
If you want my opinion, run. Run away, and don't look back. There's too many bigger fish in the sea.
In more ways than one I agree with this. Unless she's specifically asking you for help (ie, knows she has problems and is working towards fixing them) just tell her to call you when she gets her shit together.
post #11 of 58
I've known men with girls like this who ended up marrying them. Don't be one of those men.
post #12 of 58
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Originally Posted by Hard2Fit View Post
In more ways than one I agree with this.
Unless she's specifically asking you for help (ie, knows she has problems and is working towards fixing them) just tell her to call you when she gets her shit together.

i dont completely agree with this. if you guys have been together for some time, i think you should try and help her instead of telling her to call you when she gets better. because i can sure as hell tell you if she does get better and you left her, she wont be calling you.
post #13 of 58
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because i can sure as hell tell you if she does get better and you left her, she wont be calling you.

And where's the problem here?
post #14 of 58
well im saying if he cares about her, and she wants to get better, why would he tell her to call him when she gets better. why wouldnt he try and help her get better. right?
post #15 of 58
We'll have to agree to disagree. But I strongly feel you can't help people who don't want to be helped. Nothing from the OP tells me his GF wants help or to deal with her issues. She simply wants to run away (back home) from her unhappy life. He should let her.
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