Reply To: Advice with partners drinking

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rubyjune
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The situation you describe for you and your daughter sounds very difficult.

My own situation is that I don’t have children to worry about whether they are immediately safe and what impact their fathers behaviour is having one them. This will be for you the most important factor for you to evaluate.

A regular theme appears to be that those of us living with addicts don’t want to leave for all sorts of reasons. I think for an adult living with an addict is damaging but there can be reasons why staying is overall the better option. What you describe does sound very worrying, particularly the way he blames you.

The advice I would give (as does everyone else) is the need to look after yourself and your daughter. That may include staying or leaving. However your daughters welfare must take priority over him. So what if he has to go to his mum etc, he is an adult and can make choices and changes if he is really motivated.

There is no winning. The addict will find all the excuses in the world and look to shift responsibility wherever.

I’m struggling to decide if I can remain with my husband of 30 years. It’s a case of weighing up the pro’s and cons. In the meantime I’m going to attend a local group for family with addicts and do more activities on my own. He is not going to change so I will have to ( or become ill with stress) if I stay long term.

I think you would be very well advised to get some support from an addiction service who will be able to provide you support while you make decisions for you and your daughter.

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