Originally Posted by
LaTeeDa 
All I'm saying is--the more you know, the better. Denial can be very strong, in both alcoholics AND their partners. Wishing it wasn't so, or looking the other way only makes things worse in the end.
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I had a whole paragraph written about how I turned my head to it for quite some time, but I deleted it before I posted. I tried to justify his drinking as "normal." A LOT of people in my peer group drink-- definitely more than he does in one sitting and maybe even more than he does weekly. But no, I don't want to spend my life with those people...
And even though I definitely acknowledge it now, I still "wish it wasn't so, "
daily.