Is recovery possible for hopeless alcoholic?
Dear Heart: I am now, reluctantly but thoroughly, convinced my husband is a hopeless alcoholic. I am interested to see if you concur. By his own admission, he has drunk heavily most of his life. His dad beat him and taught him to drink along with him in bars from about the age of seven. His dad died of the disease at the age of 46. Through much of the last 35 years, during which he was married to and divorced from a woman with whom he had two daughters, he has retired from a very lucrative, public job with an incredibly comfortable pension. He has had one BWI, three DWI’s and been to inpatient rehab four times. He lived out of town away from me, his family and friends in a post-rehab half-way house for six months as a sentence for violating DWI probation. He returned home, violated probation again and was sentenced to nine months in jail for which he only served six months. He celebrated the millennium in a jail cell. His family and friends must all be nuts because as difficult and pai
