I hope he goes to rehab. Yes, it would make things easier on me. But I still care for him and it is extremely difficult to see someone I have known and loved waste his whole life on the bottle. His last decade spent in his parents' basement, nursing his woes with vodka. My god.
I hope this is the time that sticks.
I can't hang my hat on hope, but I still hope he does it.
In the meantime, my job is to protect DD8 from *gestures broadly* all of this.