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In Reply to: I found these quotes posted by Reposter on October 26, 2002 at 21:13:37:
Here's a quote from Ricky's MovingOn article:
"At different times during those years, Techi and I would sleep in bunk-beds or walk-in closets adjacent to Berg’s room with beds built into them. Berg liked having us there, but often he would be so loud that we would all be awake for hours listening to his drunken rantings and off-key singing.
One night when Berg was drunk, after arguing with Maria for hours about why she needed to get him some more wine, he gave her an ultimatum that unless she got it right now, he would kick her out and get one of the teen girls to be his new wife. He called Maria the "Old Church" and of course, the teen girls were the "New Church". We all figured Berg was just drunk and probably wouldn’t remember it in the morning. But on the other hand, Berg dumped one wife because she didn’t do everything he wanted, so really, what was to stop him from doing it again?
As you might guess, Maria brought him more wine that night."
Manipulative is a typical to alcoholics. Those who live with and hence are manipulated by an alcohlic are codependent.
Ricky refers to "these years" meaning the period of the "teen training" they had in their home, so that would have been in the late '80's. All those times Berg made rules on alcohol quotas for the F, those were without doubt rules he tried to keep for himself, unsuccessfully. Every alcoholic goes does this in one way or another.
