Originally Posted by
lillamy 
when the high-functioning alcoholics finally get a crack in the foundation, they go downhill very fast. Because their disease has had that much longer to progress before the foundation starts crumbling.
Yep. This has been my experience too.
My once 'high-functioning' exah has made three trips to the psych ward and been in jail another three times over the course of the last two years. He's in jail right now likely headed to prison. All of this for a man I once adored beyond measure. He went from being a loving, affectionate, funny, charming man to a man who is paranoid, delusional, and downright scary. I now have a personal protection order against him and he was recently convicted of stalking me. Never in a million years could I have guessed where this disease would take him.
Are you going to al anon? I literally saved me life.