When Someone You Love Is Drinking: A Guide for Caregivers and Family

You already know how many were in the recycling this week, and you know roughly what time the evening turns, and you know which version of it you're bracing for before you've even gotten your coat off. Somewhere along the way you learned to read a room in about three seconds without appearing to look at anybody, which is a skill nobody trained you in and one you picked up the way people pick up a second language after moving somewhere they never planned to stay.