Well, that isn't even the half of it folks. Our friend never found him and he came back to my house. I wlaked outside long enough to get the plate number off of the car he was driving and I ran back into the house, locked the door and called the police. All the while I was running back into the house, he ws yelling at me but he was so drunk by that time that I could not understand him. I called 911 and gave the the direction in which he was headed, the make and model of the car and plate # and his name. The dispatcher called for a squad right away and I hear sirens about 5 minutes later so that could have been him. I felt better and I was able to sleep after.
What I mean by short relapses is, we have seperated 5 or 6 times in the year that we have been married and whenever we would seperate he would drink for a day or two during the seperation. When we would reconcile, he would go back to being sober again while still acting the alcoholic.