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Originally Posted by rickroll
two teachers at my high school were known to have drinking problems
the name everyone called the husband was "6 pack jack" but they were high functioning so everyone looked the other way
until one day they weren't
the wife was really sick so went to hospital and she was having organ failure, while there they noticed husband was heading down same path so started treating both of them, he walked out two weeks later, she didn't make it, a week later he drank himself to death in his home
never heard from their kids again who were a bit older than me so no longer living at home but often wonder how that impacted them and if they themselves now have those issues
being a high functioning alcoholic teacher, i could have gone on drinking at the (u gon die) pace i was forever. from some, i hid it well. to everyone else, i drank more than anyone they knew but a) i went to work every morning and b) i was good at it and c) i rarely looked or acted ‘drunk’.
summers off... yeah. blessing and a curse. after drinking a handle of fireball a day plus assorted beers from the moment i woke up until i passed out i finally had enough and called a rehab place...
but i didn’t do that until august
getting paid to drink makes it doubly hard to quit.