Alcoholism is a family disease.
Living with the effects of someone else's drinking is too devastating for most people to bear without help. In Al-Anon, we learn individuals are not responsible for another person's disease or recovery from it. Detachment is neither kind nor unkind. It does not imply judgement or condemnation of the person or situation from which we are detaching. It is simply a means that allows us to separate ourselves from the adverse effects that another person's alcoholi sm can have upon our lives, Detachment helps families look at their situations realistically and objectively, thereby making intelligent decisions possible.