Jimmy and Sienna have been together for eighteen months, twelve of which were the happiest of their life.  “We met at a Manchester nightclub and just seemed to hit it off. He bought me a drink, I bought him one right back and we sort of went from there,” recalls Sienna. 

 

Both of them, in their early 20s, they like to party and when they moved in together they still continued to go clubbing and enjoy the odd drink. “Everything seemed to be great for us,” says Sienna, and then things changed. “It happened kinda gradually. Jimmy always enjoyed his drink but there were times when we’d get back from a club and he will hardly be able to stand up straight.” 

 

In the beginning Sienna thought nothing of it. Then one day, while doing some tidying up she discovered a stack of empty gin bottles in one of Jimmy’s desk drawers. “He would sometimes, at night, stay up for hours working at his computer and get to bed later,” she explains, “I thought nothing of it but obviously he was working on more than just his work. He was spending time drinking alone.” 

 

Sienna confronted Jimmy with her discovery and he broke down and confessed but swore he had it under control. “Since then there have been a few more occasions when he got so drunk that he passed out and I had to ring friends and ask them to help us get home. I am really afraid that he is not controlling this at all, he is just getting better at hiding it from me. He swears this is not the case, but he never has enough money despite having a good job, so it must go somewhere. Each time I try to talk to him about this he blows up and we end up having an argument. Our beautiful relationship is suffering because of what I think is his addiction to drink. I really do not know how to get him to admit it though. I really am afraid that it will not work out for us and I love him so much.” 

 

 

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