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Old 03-24-2016, 06:05 PM
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LexieCat
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Originally Posted by Kenny2016 View Post
Perhaps time will bring clarity.
It will, and so will having some knowledge. I'd suggest you make an appointment with a lawyer as soon as possible, just so you can protect yourself financially/legally until you are ready to make a decision.

Our collective experience (not to mention your own) suggests that whatever you do/don't do will have relatively little, if any, impact on what she does. It's entirely in her hands, and you both have a right to pursue the kind of life you want. If she wants to drink herself to death, that's her right.

I left my second husband (VERY brief marriage) when he went back to drinking after a near-death alcohol-related experience. I'd been through the drill once and I was NOT going through it a second time. Somehow he is still alive almost 20 years later--I have no idea how, since he is still drinking. But I'm grateful beyond words that I left when I did, because I might not have survived it with my sanity intact.
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