When Your Partner Drinks Too Much — Don’t Get Mad, Do This

The two essential interventions

Karen Nimmo
Published in
4 min readApr 18, 2024

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Alcohol problems often land in therapy.

Sometimes the person who’s struggling with their alcohol use will raise it — but far more often, it’s the one who’s being affected by it.

Or it’s those who grew up with it — I can’t even count the number of clients who’ve…

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Karen Nimmo
On The Couch

Clinical psychologist, author of 4 books. Editor of On the Couch: Practical psychology for health and happiness. karen@onthecouch.co.nz