My exhusband binged on alcohol. As strange as it sounds, dealing with the new husband and his heroin addiction has actually been much easier in a lot of ways, possibly because he didn't binge and really made a mess of his life before trying to get clean. The ex thought he didn't have a problem because he rarely missed work and always had his finances in order--he just would have had a lot more money if he wasn't drinking so much, and our relationship would have been a lot stronger. Bingers are a pain!
It's funny--there are a few moments when I'm glad my husband's addiction took the form it did, even though it was so destructive, it was helpful that it was so bad. It made him see that he had to fix it. No amount of magic addict thinking could get him out of the messes he'd gotten into.