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Pleasure, Gbro. Understanding this can lift an enormous weight off our shoulders. Before I grasped it I went nuts over the fact I could not understand why someone would do "that," whatever "that" was. Someone doing something as mundane as cutting in line on the road or at a store would make me go nuts. Now, now knowing "that alkie is doing what alkies do," allows me to easily let go. (Non-NTs would have an easier time of it without understanding, but NTs have a need to understand, and I'm one of those.)

Parents and governments are the biggest enablers, which makes helping alcoholics find their bottom challenging at best.