Hi, cdk!
I heard all those "promises" and "promising words" too. It was when I was getting sick of hearing words that I began to seriously think about the relationship I had with XABF until it finally dawned on me that his relationship with alcohol was more important than any other relationship in his life including me, his children etc. Before I finally summoned up the courage to break off with XABF, he had tried to break off with me because he didn't like hearing me "lecture" at him about AA, working a programme etc but he'd come back hooking me in with more promises. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was when he confessed to being in jail for a DUI after telling me he had been in rehab.
Be assured that Shane is still deep in his relationship with alcohol. His world revolves around it.
I felt hurt and humiliated and embarrassed that the relationship I wanted to believe in had evaporated into alcoholic vapours but I am so much better off today than I was six weeks ago. ((((cdk)))))
By the way, is that your dog in the avatar? What a cutie!
ARL