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And, btw, I am VERY familiar with alcoholism; my father was quite a 'devotee' of alcohol. He was a menace to my mother (and her sister on one occasion), later my stepmother and to me. However, he was mostly a menace to himself.
My husband didn't like drinking. It was an addiction that he beat several times but it always drew him back into the bottle. He wasn't a menace to me in the form of domestic violence but there were times that he did things that were out of character. I was sad that he wasn't the nice guy that I knew he could be therefore I wasn't happy.
I'm going to go a step further and let you know how I treated my husband after our divorce.
I didn't love my husband after the divorce but I did respect him. He was the father of our child so I kept him in her life as much as possible, more than court ordered visitation.
There were times he would call me and within seconds I knew he was drunk in a bar. Do you think I yelled at him. No I didn't. I got in my car and went to the bar. I didn't drag him out of the bar or embarrass him. I handled him gently because with the state he was in he needed a friend. I was a better friend than a wife. I nursed his wounds when he hit his head, I surprised him with a sweater I knitted for him for a Christmas present, blah blah blah. The point I'm trying to make is that he wasn't my enemy. He was my ex husband who happened to be the father of our child. I did everything I could to make sure she knew her father loved her even though we didn't live together.
I don't want him to come back for myself. I want him to come back to be with his daughter, to enjoy her company, her dogs and her husband.
He STILL qualifies Didi.