You ever read over at the ACOA forum? Good way to get a glimpse into your son's possible future. You don't have all the time you think you have.
This. So much of this. I was newly sober with two kids under 6 and my ex started again after a six week inpatient.
He found a "friend" to drink with. Bigger boobs I think was his second reason, the first was "she is fun and you are not". Not drinking meant no fun to him.
I looked around, and I was living my MOTHERS life. Young children, drunken cheating husband. Disrespectful to the point of my own child calling me a b***h.
There was
no time left then. I knew how that story ended for me.
A bitter old lady who rarely smiled again.
Not for me. No thank you.