[jl2718]

I didn’t read it, but, if true, this seems possible once you understand the broader personality disease associated with alcoholism. These people are ‘extreme takers’, and they are like magnets for codependents who pride themselves on their contributions. Then the taker puts this relationship into overdrive by creating a never ending string of disasters for the codependent employees to clean up. They will exhaust themselves trying keep him away by making it work without him.

I have a lot more to say about how this works and why the codependents keep falling for it, but that is the gist of how it works. Sounds like a great book to look into for a CoDA study.