When after begging him to go to work and do his best, he was fired. He pretty much had no reason not to drink all day every day after he had no job.
When he would drink, I would take the kids on "staycations" to the beach, or to hotels in our own city. We went to alot of movies, anywhere to get out of the house.
One morning I woke up at a country inns and suites, he had been drunk for 4 days. I called my sister and asked her to come and bring a truck. He was passed out the day I left, I packed an entire house out to the lawn before he woke up.