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Speaking as someone 20years in with an alcoholic partner, it only gets worse, I am a really positive person and have been dragged down continually year after year. I tell no-one and the pressure on myself and our children is immense. It does not get better. They stop having the sober moments where you possibly could talk and just wake up and drink just to be ok. My partner was functioning for a long time but now it is very hard to hide his behaviour. He is not anything like the person I met. I knew years ago I should have left and just like everyone else I haven’t still, the shame and embarrassment is great even though I have a great family who would support me I cannot muster the courage to tell them.

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