I'm sure I'll sound like a dick here (big suprise coming from me)... but FE isn't going to stop or change until he's ready... You can try to make him do what's right, you can try and coddle him along and hope he does what's right... but truth is.. He isn't going to stop.. He'll only hide what he's doing better..
My old man was/is a pill poping drunk. The town drunk in fact. I come from a small midwest town (Less than 1,000 people) and everyone in town knew my pops was the town drunk. In just the last ten years he's had 5 DUI's. He's been arrested 3 times for domestic battery and assault, agg assault, criminal threat and violation of restraining anti-stocking laws. (Three different women three different restraining orders). He doesn't work. Mooches off my 80 year old grandmother... I watched this guy give up a wife and three children (myself included) for booze and whatever pills he could swindle a doctor out of. He's lost about 50 jobs from drinking too much. He's been to rehab 5 times. Been to jail about 30 times.. and he doesn't give a fuck. He'd rather sleep in a tool shed and have his pills and booze than live in a house and be sobber.
This man picked booze and pills over his own kids.
We haven't spoken in years but last time we did talk (Keep in mind I'm about 30 yrs old) I asked why he does this stuff. ANd he looked me square in the face and said it was all our fault. That we were the ones with the problem and not him. He was just having a good time... and that if we hadn't rode him things would have been fine. He blames my mom for all the black eyes he gave her.. He blames all his girl friends for all of thiers.. At this point I just walked and away and never went back... And this happened when I was in my middle twenties... this was after a lifetime of growing up broke ass pour and having my ass kicked over and over as a kid for sometimes something as simple as the tv being too loud.. I could write a novel on what my life was like.. but nobody would really be that interested.. lol
anyway, My point is this... FE1 can't be talked into anything.. can't be shown what's right.. He's going to do what FE1 wants to do.. and come hell or high water no one will change that. I know, I speak from experience. I speak from being on the other side of an addicts drug and alcohal abuse.
This is something I bet a lot of you didn't know about your ol pal phreezer..