Update
Hello I haven't been here in a while. My divorce was final at the end of 2015, after 19 years of hell being married to an abusive alcoholic. I am involved in Al Anon and found a wonderful church that I love. There was this guy at church that I started to show some interest in, until I found out that he has been running around with much younger ladies and drinking heavily. Um, just no. Don't want that mess and the interest I had went away.
I enrolled in the community college and finishing up a medical administration program in April. I have finished up one semester already and got a certificate for medical coding I just completed. I am really looking forward to a career in coding.
The boys are doing fine. They have adjusted for the most part with their dad and I being divorced. Life is so much better now without all that pain, chaos, and toxic family dysfunction that is par for the course in alcoholic families. I don't regret leaving. I am so much happier not having him in my life.
Sue