New here
Hi,
I am new here and thougth I would just introduce myself. I joined this forum yesterday.
I am married for almost 8 years and have a 4 year old son. I work full time in a hospital. My husband owns his own business.
I came here because over the years I have noticed that my husband's drinking has been increasing. He was always one to like his drinks, especially scotch and wine and would usually have drinks on weekends, at house parties or the cottage, on vacation etc. Sometimes he would have a drink at home on a Friday or Sat. night.
But over the years the drinking has slowly increased. It is now to the point where he has to have one or two drinks everyday and on days that he is off he will have anywhere from 4 to 7 or more drinks. A lot of those times he is at home and is visibly drunk (slurred speech, staggering, droopy eyes).
My son is at that age where he is starting to notice something. Just the other week, after dinner, my husband passed out on the couch from drinking. My son wanted to play with him but my husband was out cold. My son went back to playing. All of a sudden out of the blue my son got very aggitated with his toy truck and started to throw it and say "I don't like this truck anymore, throw it in the garbage". Then he took is stuffed dog that he loves and sleeps with and did the same thing. I knew that it was displaced anger over the fact that his father was always passing out.
When I think about that incident I feel sad for my son and wonder what is in store for the future with this problem of his father drinking. I wanted my son to have a healthy upbringing and not be a child of an alcoholic. They say that usually the drinker's alcohol problem escalates. I am just starting on this journey of living with an alcoholic but I don't know where it will take me and I fear for the future.