Thanks mm0115
"How many of you live with the alcoholic?"
"How many of you live with an alcoholic and how have you learned to cope?"
Good questions. And I can ID with most of the answers. For me it is that there is enough "good" in my AW to want to try to hang in here. She is great to everyone else and only abusive to me. Do I want this to continue? NO Do I hold out false hope ? YES Is it getting worse? Yes. Am I crazy? Probably!
So the next question has to be "Why do we hang in there, in separate rooms, avoiding each other, walking on eggshells, with no intimacy and little connection to the other?
I have so much to learn...