A Young Couple Assesses Their Hazardous Drinking and Their Short and Long-Term Dreams, Hopes, and Aspirations
Augie and Merissa have been seeing one another for seven years. They met while taking the same managerial accounting class at a medium size, country, liberal arts college located in the Western part of the United States. While they were merely good friends at first, they finally began dating when they were in their first year of college.
Due to the fact both of them came from very conventional backgrounds, neither one of them drank much beyond the experimental stage when they first started to date. As the time progressed, however, they began to go to more football bashes, happy hours, sorority and fraternity parties, and keg parties. As a consequence, they over time began to drink increasingly more as time passed by.
Their Social Life Generally Consisted of Going to Restaurants Three or Four Nights Per Week, Going to Parties With Their Friends, Going to Professional Sporting Events, Going to Happy Hour With Their Friends, and Going With Their Friends to the Local Pub on the Weekends
After they graduated from college, they both got jobs in a relatively small city that was about sixty miles from their undergraduate college. Then they decided to move in with one another.
Given the fact that they were far removed from the college drinking scene, however, their social life usually consisted of going to parties with their friends, going to restaurants three or four nights per week, going to happy hour with their friends, going to professional sporting events, and going to the local saloon with their pals on the weekends. Simply put, Augie and Merissa started to drink in an abusive and hazardous manner.
Now that they were living with each other and starting to get more resolute about their relationship, then again, they started to think about having children, buying a house, becoming more responsible, and getting married.
With any significant modification in an individual’s life there is frequently something that triggers the specific modification in question. For Merissa and Augie the notion of buying a new house and having children was this “source of change.” Stated more forcefully, for the first time in their lives, Merissa and Augie started thinking about their irresponsible drinking and the alcohol long term effects on their lives.
How Would Their Abusive and Excessive Drinking Affect Their Relationship With One Another, Their Finances, Their Relationship With Their Parents, Their Ability to Have Children, and Their Mental Health?
Would their hazardous and heavy drinking adversely affect their ability to have children? How would they be able to continue spending a large percentage of their money on drinking if they were to begin saving for a new house? How responsible would they be if they had children and continued to drink in a hazardous manner? How would they be able to face their parents and tell them about their long term dreams, aspirations, and hopes while they still drank in an irresponsible manner while having fun as they did when they were in college? What would their heavy drinking do to their relationship? How would their irresponsible and abusive drinking affect their mental health?
From a different line of reasoning, although neither one of them ever suffered from alcohol poisoning, received a DUI, or experienced alcohol withdrawals, they realized that their heavy and abusive drinking was becoming a thorny issue that they could not discount anymore.
After Giving Their Situation Much Thought, Augie and Merissa Finally Understood That Their Hopes, Plans, and Dreams Would not be Fulfilled if They Continued Their Excessive and Hazardous Drinking
All of these queries unmistakably indicated the same conclusion: Augie and Merissa needed to identify more completely with the fact that they couldn’t continue their hazardous and abusive drinking if their aspirations, hopes, and dreams were to be met.
Once they settled upon this conclusion, they told their drinking buddies about their marital plans, about their plans to start a family, and about their goal of buying or building a new house. They also told their drinking buddies that they still wanted to associate with them but that they would be drinking in strict moderation from this time forward so that they could begin realizing their future aspirations, dreams, and hopes.
Much to their astonishment, all of their friends expressed relief because they too had been pondering the direction of their lives and concluded that their life-styles were totally centered around drinking. They also understood that they would have to change notably if they were to become more mature and manifest more forethought for their health, their goals, and for their careers in the next ten or fifteen years.
After their candid discussion with their buddies about their dreams, aspirations, and goals, Augie and Merissa in effect started to have more meaningful relationships with all of their pals. The primary reason for this was the fact that all of them had a similar mindset regarding their heavy drinking and their relatively short and long-term plans, aspirations, and goals.
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