This volume of Drews' million-selling book series focuses on whole-family healing.
CHAPTER TITLES IN THIS BOOK INCLUDE----
* Your children
* Adult children of alcoholics
* What if you are separated and your alcoholic says he'll get help?
* What to expect from your spouse's sobriety
* His 'good stuff' is as hooking as his 'bad stuff'
* Carrying excited misery into your next relationship
* Being good to yourself is your quickest and best therapy
* How do I know if he's sincere this time about staying sober?
* If it's good for you--- it's good for him
* Verb-love versus noun-love
* Nothing makes you feel crazier than sexual games
* If your alcoholic spouse---or someone else---says you have a drinking and/or pill problem, too
* Could you be hiding behind your religion?
* Intervention: forcing the alcoholic to get sober
* Trust your gut feeling in working with professionals
* The alcoholic and the kids vs. "mean mommy"
* Praying for people you justifiably resent
* Dealing with irrational guilt
* Saying alcoholism is a disease goes deeper than we think
* You're not trapped
* From rage to pity---a trap
* Getting help
* If you and the alcoholic are separated and you cannot stop being afraidor angry
* Will counseling help a drinking alcoholic?
* Vacillation is okay--- you're not crazy
* If you're re-married to your second alcoholic, or you're re-married the same one, or you're dating a man with a drinking problem
THE OTHER BOOKS IN THIS HIGHLY-LAUDED SERIES ARE-----
**** "Getting Them Sober, volume one" (hundreds of ideas for sobriety and recovery; endorsed by 'dear Abby'; by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale; and by Melody Beattie (author of 'Codependent No More') ----- who said '' 'Getting Them Sober' is the BEST book for the family of the still-drinking alcoholic'' )
***"Getting Them Sober, volume 3'' (half the book details the 350 secondary diseases // disorders to alcoholism)
***"Getting Them Sober, volume 4'' (hidden issues that occur before and after separation/divorce------ where there is alcoholism involved)
****"Getting Your Children Sober" (for parents of children aged 9 to 59 who have addiction problems)
***** "Sex and the Sober Alcoholic-- a healing guide". (applies to relationships with both still-drinking and sober alcoholics)
