by Sally
(United Kingdom)
I have just split from my ex again for the third time! He seems to be able to control his drinking during his working week as his job means a lot to him. Yet he drinks for the entire weekend, except for a few free hours between waking up on a Saturday morning until he feels it time to drink again on a Saturday night, which usually starts around 3 or 4pm.
He consumes a few 6-packs of beer and a bottle of Vodka, but because the effects are not enough he has now started drinking a few bottles of strong wine also. He says he does not have an alcohol problem he just genuinely has a love affair with drinking; he loves it.
He works shifts and I just cannot understand why he can control it on a 6-2 shift, no drinking through the week, yet on a backshift 2-10 he will have a few after work, and then on a night shift he doesn’t drink at all. Then the weekend comes and it’s full-on drinking to the extent that he is plastered and cannot talk properly, yet he continues to drink.
I have taken him back three times as I was starting to think maybe he doesn’t have a problem and maybe it is me because I'm not a big drinker, but it is like Jekyll and Hyde with him. We have been together for 4 years and the last year has been hell! We have stopped living together and he now has his own place.
I have changed my number this time as he always seems to convince me that I'm being overly dramatic and I take him back. The truth is when I'm with him and he’s drinking I don’t want to be in his company, and when he’s sober he is the loveliest guy he can be!
Please, can you help me to understand this addiction?
My husband claims he is not an alcoholic because he only drinks on weekends, and he can control himself during the week. He drinks heavily every Friday night till Sunday night. What do you think?
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