Alcoholism is a family disease that makes suffer both the consumer and addicted to alcohol and perhaps equally or more suffering marriage partner, husband or wife and not least children. To better understand how alcoholism affects the relationships between family members, let's see first what means the alcoholism term.
Alcoholism is alcohol dependence and an alcoholic is the desire that feels the need to consume alcohol at regular intervals. There are several types of alcoholics, and this classification is made depending on how it is consuming and time of consumption. It is important to remember: an alcoholic is the person who cannot live or cannot pass well over a stressful or frustrating situation without drinking. Alcoholic search, find or invent any reason to drink. From the psychological point of view, the alcoholic is dependent on the state "well" that produces alcohol. Interruption of consumption or absence in blood of alcohol can cause what is called in medical terms "withdrawal"- a series of events or bad physical and mental states.
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Imagine a worm eating inside of an apple. Worm holes are apparently chaotic and they go through a tricky route through the core of the apple. We give this worm the name of alcoholism. By analogy we say that the apple is the family which in more distant times had good and harmonious relationships, constructive communication that exists between family members with love and mutual understanding and uniting them at good and at hard times. But the apple has a guest uninvited, now we deal with an intruder, who almost completely changed the appearance, nature and quality of relationships between family members, especially between husband and