Originally Posted by
Learn2Live 
The answer is Yes, you CAN still stay married to a person like this. My mother has done it for OVER 50 YEARS! But she expects, and gets, NOTHING from my father. NOTHING but grief, dysfunction, un-warranted contempt and anger, and continual harm to her health and well-being. She lives her life completely alone, and has for pretty much all those 50 years. She has her own interests, her own hobbies, her own friends, and her own activities, and stays busy and involved with those things, by herself, as much as she can. She is over 70 years old and has to stay away from her own home most if not all of the day
Have you been with my mom?...you wrote about my mom to a T!!
its funny, maybe that is why i am so independent and good on my OWN..because i see what it has done to my mom...and my dad is not the alcoholic, he is the adult child of an alcoholic....
