Make Love Work

Jesse had a particularly difficult time maintaining a job. Indeed, due to her slothfulness and lack of incentive, she was out of a job far more frequently than she was in work. And when she did get employment, she had an exceedingly difficult time getting to work when her shift began, she regularly received less than optimal performance appraisals, and she called off sick so many times that she almost always got fired a few weeks after she started working. To no one’s wonder, one of the results of Jesse’s less than positive employment record was the fact that she was virtually broke most of the time.

Regardless of Jesse’s less than positive employment record and financial disregard, however, one way or another she managed to drink in an excessive and irresponsible manner most of the time. Not surprisingly, her thoughtless drinking also resulted in relationship, commitment, and dating difficulties.

Because of her excessive and abusive drinking, it came as no big shock when Jesse got a third DUI. When she went to court, the judge told Jesse that her alcohol-related actions was disgraceful and, consequently, he was going to sentence Jesse to serve five months incarcerated in jail.

Time While Locked Up In Jail To Reflect On The Demoralizing Consequences of Abusive and Irresponsible Drinking

During her time in jail, Jesse was required to learn more about alcohol facts, about the negative effects of hazardous and excessive drinking, and she was required to get alcohol rehab. The judge underlined the fact that unless Jesse gets professional alcohol counseling and discovers how to live an alcohol-free life, she will probably be spending quite a bit of her time locked up.

Jesse stated that she comprehended what the judge was saying but she still felt that placement in the local jail was not the most effective response. The magistrate saw things from an entirely different perspective and proclaimed that it was his responsibility to keep alcohol addicted people off the streets who drink and drive and who get arrested for multiple DUIs. To authenticate this perspective, the judge articulated some respected, thoroughly researched alcohol statistics that pointed to some of the disruptive consequences that are associated with hazardous and abusive drinking.

Although Jesse understood that she drank in a hazardous and abusive manner, she never thought that she was an alcoholic. So it was a real shocker when Jesse started to experience symptoms of withdrawal roughly four-and-a-half hours after getting locked up in the county jail.

To manage her alcohol withdrawal symptoms in a safe and secure manner, Jesse was taken to a drug and alcohol treatment center for alcohol detox and then returned to the county jail. While locked up in the local jail Jesse was given a mental health evaluation for her depression and got alcohol rehab but because she got this counseling as something that was mandated for her, she did not take ownership of her careless drinking.

When her time in the municipal jail was completed, the magistrate without uncertainty told Jesse that she would be under stringent scrutiny and would be required to take periodic alcohol tests.

Jessie’s Hazardous and Abusive Drinking Prevents Her From Living in a Mature and Adult Manner

After hearing how Jesse neglected to take ownership of her drinking problem and how she unwillingly followed the treatment policy and procedures while in the city jail, the magistrate knew that it was basically a matter of time before he would be seeing Jesse once again in court about her excessive and hazardous drinking behavior. As the judge thought about Jesse’s circumstance, he couldn’t help but think about how some people never “connect the dots” and discover how to live in an accountable and mature manner.

Tags: alcohol abuse, alcohol facts, alcohol withdrawal symptoms, alcoholism, commitment, divorce, healing arts, Inspiration, love, mental health, motivation, positive attitude, relationships, self improvement, self-esteem, singles, success, women's issues

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 at 1:21 pm and is filed under make love work. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.