Life With: an Alcoholic

How to Set Boundaries When You’re Staying with an Alcoholic (Without Ultimatums) Jennifer Randall Young, host of The Life with an Alcoholic, speaks to women who aren’t leaving an alcoholic partner right now and want to stay without losing themselves. She reframes boundaries as decisions about your own behavior—not ultimatums, rules for him, or agreements dependent on his cooperation—and explains w...

The Night I Stopped Trying to Fix My Husband (Life With an Alcoholic) Jennifer Randall-Young introduces The Life With an Alcoholic, a show focused on women and partners living with functional alcoholism, and shares a pivotal moment when she sat in her driveway for 25 minutes mentally calculating what she’d walk into at home. That night, she recognized she could not fix her husband because she did...

Is My Husband a Functional Alcoholic? 5 Quiet Signs You’re Not Overreacting Jennifer Randall-Young introduces The Life With An Alcoholic, a show focused on supporting women who feel alone while someone they love is falling apart. In this episode, she explains why functional alcoholism can be hard to name and often invisible to everyone except the partner living closest to it. She shares five under...

Breaking Codependency in Alcoholic Family Dynamics: Boundaries, Nervous System Healing & Self-Reclamation Lauren Nicole Butler shares her experience as the child of two alcoholics: her mother has 21 years sober, while her father’s functioning alcoholism escalated during COVID, leading to severe illness, a stroke, and life in a care facility. She describes how her codependency and “fixing” resp...

Alcohol Detox, Toxic Relationships, and Finding Yourself Again | Kristen’s 15-Year Sobriety Story Kristen shares how dating a high-functioning alcoholic in her 20s led to a terrifying alcohol detox crisis: after she returned from a family trip, her boyfriend attempted to quit drinking alone, hallucinated, jumped from a moving car, and was hospitalized and placed in a medically induced coma for a w...

Stop the Research Spiral: You Can’t Cure His Drinking (Reclaim Yourself First) Jennifer Randall-Young introduces The Life With An Alcoholic, a show focused on supporting women who are holding everything together while someone they love is falling apart. She shares how she spent years in a “research spiral,” searching for medical explanations and fixes for her partner’s drinking, and explains that...

Stopping Him From Drinking Isn’t My Job: 5 Things I Quit Doing Host Jennifer Randall-Young introduces The Life with an Alcoholic, a show focused on the woman managing life alongside an alcoholic partner, and shares that after eight years trying to make her husband stop drinking she realized “stopping him from drinking is not actually my job.” She describes five things she stopped doing: buying alc...

Stop Trying to Fix Him: How to Stop Losing Yourself Married to an Alcoholic Jennifer Randall Young introduces The Life With An Alcoholic as a show for women holding everything together while a partner’s alcoholism escalates, focusing on the quiet ways the spouse changes: hypervigilance, constant scanning, backup plans, and losing her sense of self. She explains that the grief many feel is often fo...

Living With a Functional Alcoholic: You’re Not Crazy, You’re Carrying Too Much Jennifer Randall Young introduces The Life with an Alcoholic, a show focused on women holding life together while a loved one’s drinking escalates, and describes the isolating reality of living with a “functional” alcoholic whose public life looks fine. She recounts common experiences like counting bottles at night, sec...