Aromas are interesting; just one smell can take you to back
to the best times in your life where you feel happy and carefree. Then on the
other end of the spectrum smells can take you to some of the worst times of
your life bringing back just about every negative time and feeling you ever
had. The smell that has a negative impact on my emotions is alcohol. The smell
of alcohol takes me to the worst times in my life.
Drinking alcohol does not make people bad. I know that. Not
all people have problems with alcohol but for me it is a problem and it does
not fit into my life in any way, shape or form. Just the smell literally is toxic to me.
Alcohol had done nothing in my life except cause pain. My ex
husband was mentally abusive when he drank, it destroyed my marriage. He even
made me hate the saying “its five o’clock somewhere” because that was one of
his favorite sayings when I would tell him 9 AM was too early to start
drinking.
I lived through my brother-in- laws suicide because of
alcohol. I watched my ex husband drink himself into dementia and I’ve seen the
abuse of it destroy so many things in mine and others lives. It has caused
nothing but harm and destruction.
Whenever I smell alcohol it takes me back to every time my
ex husband told me it was five o’clock somewhere, every time he yelled or
belittled me because I was …myself…every time I counted the beers he drank,
found the hidden bottles, was embarrassed by his behavior around my family and
friends. Every fear I had that someone might come over to my house when he was
drunk. Every time I stayed up late so he would pass out on the couch so I did
not have to sleep in the same room. Every time he looked at me with those
bloodshot eyes and spoke with that slurred speech that made my stomach turn.
My ex drinking all of the time is not the only negative experience
I have had with alcohol but it is most prominent in my mind when I smell the
stuff. I don’t think people understand what the smell does not me, how
dreadfully negative the impact aroma has on my emotions.
Yes people can drink and it has no impact on their lives,
for me though just the aroma is detrimental.
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