it is hard when kids are involved...but as their parent you have to make the tough choices (that they may not like) to assure their best outcome and future.
sad but oh so telling that when presented with the ultimatum, he turned it on you and what HE needed YOU to do.
a truly repentant man....husband and father...upon realizing that his drinking was about to tear his family apart would willingly embrace recovery.....he'd do anything and everything under the sun to be all that those who loved him hoped he could.....he'd crawl over hot coals.
not tell the woman who had stood by him all this time that he'd quit drinking if she would <<fill in the blank>>.