I am sorry strength, but you'll feel much better soon. There is a saying in Spanish... ok, I can't remember it... LOL... but its something like "an enemy that leaves your palace deserves to walk on a red carpet".. hope this kind of gives the idea of the saying.. ?? sheesh.
Your thread helped me today because I went out with an active alkie, he is still very active and deep in denial, and I sometimes think "if he only had stopped drinking". So thanks to you and others that share these experiences I know that he would still be a dry drunk, a jerk, and it wouldn't have mattered anyway. This helps me let him go.
All the best.