"Buddy Butt" <buddybutt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> And then there is the situation I've seen quite a few times where two
>> relative newcomers, both seemingly working the program to the best of
>> their abilities, hook up and things look great for a little while. Then
>> one of them goes back out, and the other is now facing a serious threat
>> to their own sobriety.
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>> I'm all for offering my ES&H and then letting people make their own
>> decisions. But there are a number of ways relationships can end badly
>> for newcomers. Now, as it has been pointed out in this thread, *ANY*
>> relationship has a good chance of ending badly. The biggest difference I
>> can see is that when a newcomer relationship ends badly, there is a
>> good chance of somebody getting drunk who really needs to be staying
>> sober.
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> That pretty much says it all.

Tex won't agree.