Originally Posted by
Fabela 
And then he said the words that I just remembered:" As long as you don't drink when the kids are awake." He has given me an opening. He shouldn't have. I have to be strong.
fables this reminds me of a book I'd started where the main character only drank after her son went to bed. One night she was trashed and her son had a health emergency. She tried to drive him to the ER and was pulled over for drunk driving. The police got her son to the hospital in time, but she lost all parental rights. The character was separated from her husband in this story, but it makes me wonder- if there were to be an emergency after the kids were to bed and you had been hitting the bottle, would you be able to forgive yourself? I'm not on any kind of soapbox here - I may be losing my job soon - but maybe if u keep that in mind what your husband said wont feel so much like an "out"?