This actually happened yesterday, but whatever.
So my ex is moving back to town in about a week, and yesterday was his birthday so I called him up. We're still good friends and I've been really excited to see him again. Anyway, I call him up and he tells me how great his life is going, that he got his GED and is getting everything back on track. Then he goes on to say that he bought a $50 bottle for himself for his birthday. We're both recovering addicts, see, and I've seen how he gets when he's drunk. Stumbling, slurring so bad you can't understand him at all, closing his eyes for two seconds and then waking up not knowing where he is, and doing stupid things and forgetting about them the next day.
I can't control what he does. But I really care about him and it kills me to see him keep doing this to himself, when he knows it's an addiction and it just causes problems for him. I'm worried that one of these days the things he does while drunk are going to get him arrested, hurt or even killed.