Thank you for sharing!!! This is my first post. It is so helpful to hear from other men with alcoholic women in their lives. I have yet to tell my story on this forum, despite lurking here for about a month now. The progressive nature of this disease is so real to me as I have been married for 17 years and have kept the "For better or worse....Till death do us part" thing. I am starting to see how I have been hiding behind that commitment when what I have been doing is being in denial that her drinking was that bad. I am now transitioning into a detachment phase. I will eventually start another thread to share my reality. Take care men and take care of those kids. They need us.