Father was alcoholic
My dad was an alcoholic. He became really ill with a lung problem and stopped drinking. He died 10 years later. I never really got to know him as a child. The ironic thing is that I am now married to an alcoholic. When my husband went to jail for 4 months on a license charge, he just stopped the beer. As soon as he came home...the drinking started again. He is not a nasty, drunk who sits in the bar all day, but he likes his 6 pack a night. This has been going on for many years. Sometimes he is alright and sometimes it's worse. My older children cannot stand his drinking and always complain about it to him. He almost lost us to his drug use many years ago and hope that he will open up his eyes and see what he is doing to his kids. I love him and want to spend the rest of my life with him. I just hope he stops the drinking before it stops him.