[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Booze has been around through the ups and downs and doesn’t change someone’s personality in the same way.

You need to talk to a drunk's wife and family before you make such a sweeping statement.

Nine years sober,
GtG

[cuban leaf]

Your post reminded me of what I’ve been thinking as I read a lot of judgemental posts here: I always thought divorced people were second class citizens. I really didn’t have much respect for them. Then it happened to me. And I mean “it happened to me”. I cut people a LOT of slack now.

We are all too quick to judge others “not like us”. Jesus was very clear: “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” When People call drug users scum, in my head I ask, “Who isn’t? Who has not sinned?”

We seem to love to escalate the sins of others that just don’t happen to be our area of temptation. The fat tea totaler ridicules the drinker. The drinker ridicules the fat “glutton”. And on it goes...