You know how you can tell an alcoholic? You can smell it on their skin.
It’s not their breath. It’s subtly out of their skin. Like their own private perfume.
It’s a diagnostic tool.
One I wish I didn’t have because it’s hard to bite my tongue. I’m not in the field anymore. I really shouldn’t stick my nose into someone else’s business.
Yet, I worry. Someone with kids and a wife and a lot of other positive things. He doesn’t fit the diagnosis of an alcoholic because it doesn’t impair his functioning. Still, it’s more than your drink every night drinking. More than a maintenance alcoholic. I know other people who drink often, and a lot. They don’t have the smell. The smell comes from a chronic, excessive amount of alcohol in your system.
*sighs*
