I was married 19 years. My wifes drinking, the best I can tell, was in the last four to five years. She hid it well. The last two years, things got progressively worse.....yelling, lying around the house, driving drunk. Finally, she got a DWI and I got her to go to rehab. It did not work. She began drinking again. The final straw......she began an affair with a drunk she met in rehab. That was the end for me.
Her life continues to spiral down.....two more DWI's, totaled two cars, abandoned me and the kids, her family. She is off with her rehab lover again. The person I once knew is gone. Such is the power of alcohol!