Bruce and Sherry have been in a dating relationship for seven years. They met while taking the same art appreciation class at a large state school located in central Minnesota. While they were primarily classmates their first two years at school, during their junior year they started dating one another.
Due to the fact that Bruce and Sherry came from extremely conservative, highly religious families, neither one of them drank much beyond the experimental phase. As their dating relationship deepened, however, they started to attend more spur-of-the-moment keg parties, basketball pep rallies, sorority and fraternity parties, and they routinely went to happy hour with their buddies. Since alcohol was so available at these functions, they began drinking increasingly more as time progressed.
After they graduated with their Bachelor of Science degree, Bruce and Sherry made up their minds that they wanted to continue their relationship and so they moved to a relatively large city that was located around fifty miles from their college. Not long after they moved into an apartment with one another, they found employment in the same large company.
After working at their place of employment for approximately two or three months, Bruce and Sherry found some other young couples that liked to party and drink. In fact, much like their undergraduate days at college, most of the functions and events they went to with their friends had something to do with heavy drinking. As a consequence, the more they hung out and partied with their friends, the more they engaged in abusive and dangerous drinking.
As unbelievable as it sounds, in spite of the fact that they continued drinking and partying with their friends, their relationship somehow, someway began deepening. Now, rather than discussing the next happy hour or drinking party they would attend, however, Bruce and Sherry found themselves talking about getting married, moving into a house, and having a family. In sum, Sherry and Bruce started thinking about how they could be making a more beneficial contribution to society as they started living their lives as more responsible adults.
With most noteworthy changes in an individuals life there is frequently something that serves as a trigger for the change. For Sherry and Bruce, thinking about moving into a new house, getting married, and starting a family was this trigger. What is more, for the first time in their young relationship, they started to challenge their party mentality and also began speculating how their abusive drinking might negatively affect their health down the road.
As Bruce and Sherry started to think more seriously about their partying and their drinking, a number of additional questions quickly emerged. For example, would their hazardous and abusive drinking negatively affect their ability to have children? How would their excessive drinking affect their mental health? How would they be able to face their parents and tell them about their long-term aspirations, dreams, and hopes while they still drank in a careless and immature manner as they did when they were in undergraduate school? How responsible would they be if they had children and continued to drink in a careless and unhealthy manner? How would they be able to continue spending most of their money on drinking if they were to begin saving for a new house? And finally, what would their hazardous drinking do to their relationship?
Looking at things a little differently, although Sherry and Bruce never experienced alcohol withdrawal symptoms, got arrested for driving under the influence, or suffered from an alcohol overdose, they understood the fact that their hazardous and abusive drinking was becoming a serious problem that they could not afford to disregard any longer.
The more that Bruce and Sherry questioned their party lifestyle and their drinking, the more they came to the same conclusion: if they were to reach their goals, hopes, and aspirations, they would have to stop drinking in a careless and immature manner.
Once Bruce and Sherry arrived at this deduction, they had a conversation with their friends and told them that they had decided to stop their partying and excessive drinking because they had plans to get married, have children, and to move into a house. Much to their surprise, their friends expressed relief because they too had been reflecting on their lives and decided that their abusive drinking was stopping them from realizing their goals and aspirations.
After opening up to their friends about their future aspirations, hopes, and plans, Bruce and Sherry were happy to find out that they began having even better and more sound relationships with all of their drinking buddies. The primary reason for this was the fact that all of them now maintained a similar viewpoint regarding their party mentality and how their irresponsible and abusive drinking was negatively affecting their short and long-range goals, hopes, and aspirations.
Due to the fact that Bruce and Sherry came from extremely conservative, highly religious families, neither one of them drank much beyond the experimental phase. As their dating relationship deepened, however, they started to attend more spur-of-the-moment keg parties, basketball pep rallies, sorority and fraternity parties, and they routinely went to happy hour with their buddies. Since alcohol was so available at these functions, they began drinking increasingly more as time progressed.
After they graduated with their Bachelor of Science degree, Bruce and Sherry made up their minds that they wanted to continue their relationship and so they moved to a relatively large city that was located around fifty miles from their college. Not long after they moved into an apartment with one another, they found employment in the same large company.
After working at their place of employment for approximately two or three months, Bruce and Sherry found some other young couples that liked to party and drink. In fact, much like their undergraduate days at college, most of the functions and events they went to with their friends had something to do with heavy drinking. As a consequence, the more they hung out and partied with their friends, the more they engaged in abusive and dangerous drinking.
As unbelievable as it sounds, in spite of the fact that they continued drinking and partying with their friends, their relationship somehow, someway began deepening. Now, rather than discussing the next happy hour or drinking party they would attend, however, Bruce and Sherry found themselves talking about getting married, moving into a house, and having a family. In sum, Sherry and Bruce started thinking about how they could be making a more beneficial contribution to society as they started living their lives as more responsible adults.
With most noteworthy changes in an individuals life there is frequently something that serves as a trigger for the change. For Sherry and Bruce, thinking about moving into a new house, getting married, and starting a family was this trigger. What is more, for the first time in their young relationship, they started to challenge their party mentality and also began speculating how their abusive drinking might negatively affect their health down the road.
As Bruce and Sherry started to think more seriously about their partying and their drinking, a number of additional questions quickly emerged. For example, would their hazardous and abusive drinking negatively affect their ability to have children? How would their excessive drinking affect their mental health? How would they be able to face their parents and tell them about their long-term aspirations, dreams, and hopes while they still drank in a careless and immature manner as they did when they were in undergraduate school? How responsible would they be if they had children and continued to drink in a careless and unhealthy manner? How would they be able to continue spending most of their money on drinking if they were to begin saving for a new house? And finally, what would their hazardous drinking do to their relationship?
Looking at things a little differently, although Sherry and Bruce never experienced alcohol withdrawal symptoms, got arrested for driving under the influence, or suffered from an alcohol overdose, they understood the fact that their hazardous and abusive drinking was becoming a serious problem that they could not afford to disregard any longer.
The more that Bruce and Sherry questioned their party lifestyle and their drinking, the more they came to the same conclusion: if they were to reach their goals, hopes, and aspirations, they would have to stop drinking in a careless and immature manner.
Once Bruce and Sherry arrived at this deduction, they had a conversation with their friends and told them that they had decided to stop their partying and excessive drinking because they had plans to get married, have children, and to move into a house. Much to their surprise, their friends expressed relief because they too had been reflecting on their lives and decided that their abusive drinking was stopping them from realizing their goals and aspirations.
After opening up to their friends about their future aspirations, hopes, and plans, Bruce and Sherry were happy to find out that they began having even better and more sound relationships with all of their drinking buddies. The primary reason for this was the fact that all of them now maintained a similar viewpoint regarding their party mentality and how their irresponsible and abusive drinking was negatively affecting their short and long-range goals, hopes, and aspirations.
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