We can see that Alice Green is perhaps not as happy with life as she made out to be as her Husband Michael only became aware of her issue with Alcohol when the situation became too extreme. After Alice came back from rehabilitation we can see that she is still in a very fragile state and remains unsure about many things. Alcoholism is a lifelong disease that one must battle against every day, something that Michael fails to see, “let’s get you better so it will never happen again”, implying that it can be completely cured. The relationship with Michael does not improve even though he seems to be working round the clock to make her get better so she can come back to their normal life. This is perhaps the reason why Alice asks for a separation, as Michael does not see that the reason why she got involved with alcohol in the first place was due to the constraints of their normal life and now that she is recovering Michael restricts her from having any room to grow and rebuild what she had lost. In many cases people on the road to recovery tend to feel depressed and lonely hence why support groups like AA meetings and sponsors are used to help people in Alice’s and Michael’s situation. They provide constant support in the form of trusting relationships where people truly listen to what each other has to say with minimal judgment, which in turn provides comfort and understanding through empathy. However this can only work if the individuals are responsive to the change that must take place in order to understand the ups and downs of recovery. It is important to understand both the disorder and the process of recovery in order to help the individual work their way back into their own lives. Even with this in mind many people fall back into the bad habbits even with the best of help.
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/The-Road-to-Recovery.html
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