The Drinker's Woman Book 1: Second Edition: For the woman who loves, or has loved, a man who drinks too much (Volume 1)

SECOND EDITION! 2013 Award-winning Book! Florida Publishers Association. An important and controversial book, it may turn on its head everything you thought you knew about drinking, about alcohol, about problem drinking (or alcoholism), about treatment, and about the women who live with men who drink too much. Living with a man who drinks too much is not only frustrating, but also damages his woman both mentally and emotionally. Women are "brain-wired" differently from men, with over 100 differences between their brains. When alcohol affects the brains of men in specific ways, the bad behavior it can produce creates very specific stress and emotional harm in women because of their wiring as nurturers and caretakers. The woman who stays with the man who drinks too much has a salt-of-the-earth makeup, but that wonderful personality is most vulnerable to hurt from harsh criticism. This book shows you where you are vulnerable, then gives you many "tricks" for coping with and changing the common behaviors of men who drink too much. Included is an improved diagnostic guideline that allows a woman to determine just how deep her man is in a drinking problem. Professionals are forced to use the American Psychological Association definition, but this book shows how their guideline is inadequate. Women need to know when their men are getting in trouble--long before they reach the last stages. By then, she has been terribly hammered, and that doesn't have to happen. AUTHOR INFO: Ariel's experience includes being on both sides of the over-drinking relationship. She occasionally throws in asides about her own thinking and behavior in those years that she was caught in the alcohol trap, and candidly admits she had many, or "an unspecified number of," "wild and crazy romances with some wild and crazy over-drinkers." She also throws in some of her experiences with the --hmm-m, odd--behavior and thinking of men who drink too much. For the woman who no longer lives with the drinker, even those whose partners have entered a recovery system, the information in this book is still important. The emotional damage created in a drinker's woman has changed her entire personality--but she doesn't have to stay stuck with those negative changes. Many women have found that, after understanding better and learning some new tricks, they can live fairly happily with the drinker--even if he doesn't change.