Seriously fella, did you not read my initial post and the one to LV?
I lost my Dad to alcoholism when I was eighteen. He was forty four.
To say somebody likes being an alcoholic is ridiculous. It's like saying someone 'likes' having cancer. It's nonsensical.
I'm sorry to hear that mate and it must have been terrible. Not all addicts are the same though. And that's what people think. If that was the case, not one of them would ever beat it.
I just can't fathom an alcoholic likes slowly killing themselves. Part of the illness, surely, is not having the mental capacity to fight the addiction.
I appreciate your kind words.