Originally Posted by
akrasia 
I was thinking today that the reason I can't let it go it is that I STILL LOVE HIM and I STILL BELIEVE IN HIM. I see the man he is/was/is/was way way down at the bottom of all that booze.
If I didn't care, it'd be easy to shrug it all off. Heigh ho.
people change. he's not the person you met and never will be. The booze has changed him forever. Even if he quits, he will be another person, not the one you first met.