I know I don't want to spend the rest of my life like this with someone I don't respect for the choices he's making and his unwillingness to work on himself.
Addiction is not a disease of willpower, it’s a disease of instinct. It lives in the part of the brain that tells them to breathe.
I think it really helps to de-personalize alcoholism when we have more knowledge about the disease itself. It’s never as easy a tug of war as just pick booze or recovery and me/your kids/work etc.