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| A Very Young Couple Evaluates Their Heavy And Hazardous Drinking And Their Short And Long-Term Hopes, Dreams, And Plans Frank and Linda have been dating one another for four-and-a-half years. They met while enrolled in the same music appreciation class at a medium size, country, private liberal arts college located in the Midwestern part of the United States. While they were essentially good pals at first, they finally started dating when they were in their second year of college. Because both of them came from very conservative backgrounds, neither one of them drank very much beyond the casual drinking stage when they first started to date. As the time went by, nonetheless, they began to go to more football bashes, keg parties, sorority and fraternity parties, and happy hours. Consequently, they in a step-by-step fashion began to drink increasingly more as time passed by. After they graduated from college, they both found employment in a large city that was located about fifty-five miles from their undergraduate college. Then they at long last made up their mind to move in with one another. With any noteworthy alteration in a person's life there is usually something that triggers the particular change in question. For Frank and Linda the idea of having children and buying a new house was this "method of change." In brief, for the first time in their lives, Frank and Linda started to critically assess their hazardous drinking and the long term negative consequences of alcohol on their health. As an illustration, they started to wonder if they would ever experience an alcohol overdose due to their abusive drinking. Would their excessive and heavy drinking negatively affect their ability to have children? How would they be able to continue spending a large percentage of their money on drinking if they were to begin saving for a new house? From a different slant on things, even though neither one of them ever experienced alcohol poisoning, received a DWI arrest, or experienced alcohol poisoning symptoms, they understood that their abusive drinking was becoming an issue that they could not "sweep under the carpet" any longer. All of these inquiries undeniably led to the same conclusion, namely that Linda and Frank needed to be more aware that they couldn't maintain their irresponsible and hazardous drinking if their dreams, hopes, and plans were to be attained. Once they arrived at this conclusion, they told their drinking pals about their their goal of buying or building a new house, about their plans to start a family, and about their marital plans. They also told their drinking buddies that they still wanted to hang out with them but that they would be drinking in strict moderation from this time forward so that they could begin realizing their future goals, dreams, and aspirations. Unexpectedly, all of their buddies expressed relief because they too had been reassessing their lives and concluded that their life-styles were much too frequently centered around drinking. They also understood that they would have to change substantially if they were to become more responsible and show more thoughtfulness for their careers, their goals, and for their health in the next twenty or twenty-five years. After their heart-to-heart conversation with their pals about their goals, dreams, and aspirations, Linda and Frank in effect started to have more significant relationships with all of their friends. The main reason for this was the fact that all of them had a similar mindset regarding their heavy and abusive drinking and their relatively short and long-term goals, aspirations, and plans. |
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