I think there are varying degrees to the question. My bottomline opinion is that it is absolutely possible, the question is would you want to. My wife drinks, I dont. She's a normie, so it causes us no stress at all. If she was an alcoholic or alcohol abuser, while I would still love her, I'm sure that after a while I would just get sick of it and move on. My sobriety was way too expensive and is too valuable for me to suffer through someone else's idiocy (mine was enough thank you). Case in point: I had a friend come visit me about 1 year ago. Surely an alcoholic, but a good friend. That said, we were out to dinner, and he started acting up - got loud, used foul language, etc. all to be funny. I literally got up, left the restaurant, and sent him packing when he finally made it home