Worried
Stepping way out by posting...
1. He always takes drinking too far. Can't just have fun. He goes way beyond every time we'really out.
2. A night of drinking usually ends with me going to bed alone and leaving him in his chair where he'll soon be snoring for hours, then come to bed hurling beer breath in my direction for the rest of the night.
3. Morning after no real hangover, apologizes for being rude.
4. Has said, "I'm all done drinking", then when drinking "just a coue beers" says he meant he'd do better, not quit.
5. Sometimes stops at the end of our long driveway to drink a beer before coming in the house and then tries to hide it by chewing gum and keeping a safe distance.
6. After he slows down for a while, the bets will get bigger and then increase in number until he's right back to square one.
7. Is very defensive. He'll often bring up something he considers a fault of mine to cause an argument in order to stop the discussion.
Have any of you dealt with these things? If so, did you think your spouse was an alcoholic? What did you do?