Aug 3, 2019
Dominic and Valerie met in recovery and to this day go to a
12-step meeting every morning. Dominic’s family affairs all were
accompanied by alcohol. Parties and christenings alike all featured
drinking, and so he started drinking at these events. By his teens
he was also working as a bookie, seeking what he thought was a
glamorous life full of fast times, fast money and fast women. Even
his time in the military couldn’t stop his addictions. Valerie
already had three months sobriety when Dominic met her at an AA
meeting. She says her life was totally controlled by alcohol but
didn’t realize that she was unique in her relationship with
alcohol; she thought everybody drank the way she did. She recalls a
drunken incident when young nieces and nephews discovered her late
at night crawling to the bathroom, too intoxicated to walk.