Thanks all for your responses. AH has informed me (via text of course) that he has found an apartment and is moving out tomorrow. He says he is not doing this because of alcohol but because “I need to focus on me”, “I need to try and find myself” and “I need to be happy”. So unbelievably selfish.
I took my boys out of town with my parents for the weekend so will need to talk to them when we get home tomorrow and they see he isn’t there. I think I’m going to keep it short and simple like many of you suggested and just tell them that daddy has decided to move out of our house but mommy is still there with them. And see what questions they have I guess. I don’t know whether to mention the alcohol or not. Maybe later on.
Mango, thank you for the book recommendations. I will pick up a few of those this week.