{"id":261,"date":"2018-08-30T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/08\/30\/how-to-deal-with-alcoholic-relative\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:24:02","slug":"how-to-deal-with-alcoholic-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-to-deal-with-alcoholic-relative","title":{"rendered":"How To Deal With an Alcoholic Relative"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Question:<\/strong> My son drinks heavily and keeps telling me that he doesn\u2019t want to live any longer. He says, \u201cI\u2019m going to hang myself. I\u2019m desperate.\u201d What should I do? Please help me.\u00a0Tatiana.<\/em><\/div>\n
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<\/em> Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Answer:<\/strong> You\u2019ve got to find out the original reason for this if you want to fight your own sin and help your loved one in his struggle with his sin. He drinks and doesn\u2019t want to live because he doesn\u2019t see any meaning in life. He doesn\u2019t know why and what for he has to keep going. He doesn\u2019t recognise the value of his life. That is why he chooses to muffle his senses with alcohol to forget about everything. It\u2019s self-deception.<\/div>\n
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There is a spiritual component of my answer to your question. You have to pray for your son and go to church and take communion as often as possible. You should believe and hope that God can help your son. In addition, you should be talking with your son. Talk with your son and try to persuade him that life does have a meaning; that a sober life is worth living; and that there is a real purpose in life.<\/div>\n
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Of course, it\u2019s unlikely that you will be able to accomplish this without God\u2019s grace and solely by willpower. However, if you persist in your dialogue with your son; if you don\u2019t condemn him, judge him, or yell at him but instead, show him your understanding and sympathy; if he sees compassion and love in your eyes \u2014 then he will surely listen to you and you\u2019ll be able to bring him to church for a confession. Hopefully, he will agree to pray to the Mother of God and read the Akathist to the Inexhaustible Chalice icon. By doing so, he will turn a new page of his life. It isn\u2019t easy, of course, because he is used to sinning already; he has a habit of living in the drowsy and insane state of intoxication.<\/div>\n
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You will need a lot of humility, a lot of patience, and a lot of hard work. God can hear your every word. Spiritually advanced people say that a mother\u2019s prayer can raise her child even from the bottom of an ocean.<\/div>\n
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