Drinking

Drinking is not a problem until it begins to affect your relationship. Only you can determine if your alcohol romance is interfering with your partnership. The drinker must want to change, or not. The codependent non-drinker cannot wait around for the drinker to change. The people in relationships with drinkers, need to find their own comfort, their own strength if they choose to remain with the drinker or not.

Giving Time: If This Moment is All We Have

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:November 27, 2021
Post category:Co-Parenting Dating Depression Divorce Drinking Health and Fitness Joy Love mindfulness Self-care Single-Dad Spirituality

THIS IS MY HAPPY PLACE. Typing words. Imagining I am putting down some information of value.

Dating 2.0: Enticing and Keeping the Next Love of Your Life?

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:November 1, 2021
Post category:Dating Depression Drinking Health and Fitness Joy Love Money relationship building Relationships Self-care Sex Spirituality

If there's an imbalance in the first weeks or months of the relationship, there are going to be bigger issues as you move deeper into the choppy waters of real relationship building.

Why Add Alcohol to Your Mix and Match Relationship Quest?

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:October 27, 2021
Post category:Dating Depression Divorce Drinking Health and Fitness Joy Love relationship building Relationships Self-care Sex Single-Dad Spirituality Third Glass Series

So alcohol is a bit like sex. It clouds your judgment. It allows you to overlook some of the red flags that might be obvious if you were sober. In my plans, I want to meet my partner in a truthy place.

What’s So F-in Hard About Finding a Real Partner?

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:September 16, 2021
Post category:Dating Drinking Health and Fitness Joy Love Married Life Parenting relationship building Relationships Self-care Sex Single-Dad

When your partner's actions are AWAY from you rather than TOWARDS you, it is time to go.

Heading Towards the Brightside: Ideas for Lifting Your Mood

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:September 11, 2021
Post category:Depression Divorce Drinking Health and Fitness humans of divorce Joy Love Parenting relationship building Relationships Self-care Single-Dad Spirituality

At the end of the day. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Celebrate small victories and take care of yourself because you’re worth it!

Everything is Beautiful and Painful: Top Three Relationship Rules

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:August 30, 2021
Post category:Anger burn Co-Parenting Depression Divorce Drinking Health and Fitness humans of divorce Married Life Parenting relationship building Relationships Self-care Single-Dad Spirituality

When I was younger and my parents began to struggle with a long protracted divorce, I begged for Jesus/God to help them stay together. I prayed all the time for my dad to stop killing himself with alcohol and cigarettes.

Divorce Infographic (The Divorce Talk Show)

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:February 19, 2021
Post category:Depression Divorce Drinking humans of divorce Married Life Money Parenting Self-care Single-Dad Spirituality

This infographic courtesy of The Divorce Talk Show

A Message from My Higher Power – The Universe: Jump Off!

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:February 18, 2021
Post category:Anger Co-Parenting Dating Depression Divorce Drinking Health and Fitness Joy Love mindfulness Money Parenting relationship building Relationships Self-care Single-Dad Spirituality

Are you moving the meta-goals along the path towards done? Are you putting non-important items on your to-do list rather than deleting or delegating them?