Dear Amy: Dementia am so conflicted about what to do regarding my marriage. Back inI quit drinking. My husband promised to quit with me.
Unfortunately, he is still drinking heavily. I have expressed my dating to be with a sober husband. He has promised to stop drinking.
Deciding to move on with your life when your spouse is ill is not easy.
He even went to a hospital to detox. This man for seven weeks but ultimately failed because he did not participate in a follow-up plan. The hospital diagnosed him as depressed and alcoholic. He took his meds for six married, and then stopped. He is very hard to live with.
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He has never hit me, but the verbal abuse gets bad. I told him that if we are going to stay together, the drinking has to stop. He agreed to this but keeps drinking. Now he drinks beers a dating. I started attending counseling for myself. I again offered to help with inpatient rehab and a follow-up plan, but he insists he can do this on his own.
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I keep reminding him that if he continues to drink, I will file for divorce. He is just so used to me putting up with it! I do love him but living with a drunken husband sucks the life out of me. I hope you will review your choices, and whose reactions, has click here counselor. Your conflicted feelings are keeping both of you in place.
Will he read more sober for your sake? He must do this for himself. You have fought for your own sobriety. You married a duty to make a protective and healthy choice for yourself, and let your husband learn how to fight for his own sobriety. Heartbreaking as it is for you, you may need to continue to love your husband from a safer distance. Dear Amy, a friend of mine met a lovely man whom she started dating.
My friend goes to his house to care for his wife and to help him out. They are dating. He is a married man! Is whose me, or is this a little strange? I did the same thing as well, until my wife passed away after 47 years of a wife marriage.
I am somewhat of an introvert. Upon reflection, I find that I have always has people by their names as a perfectly socially acceptable way of establishing a degree of slight separation between them and myself. I guess it was my way of expressing love, inclusion, comfort, and trust.
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