Term paper from 2010 in the field of social pedagogy/social work, grade: 1, Catholic University of Freiburg. Language: German. Abstract: The motivation, honesty, and impulse of this alcoholic to write such a letter to his wife reveal his complete hopelessness and longing for help. By the time an alcoholic reaches this point, he must have already fallen deeply. Looking back on his long journey of uncontrolled alcohol consumption, he will - if he remains honest - unreservedly admit that he has hurt many people during this time, that he could no longer distinguish between truth and lies, and that he had to take many wrong paths to practice his addiction. Repressing, obscuring, abusing trust. Again and again.