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I have a husband that's an alcoholic, my life is miserable! He refused to go to rehab again, says he will never stop drinking, I need advice

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Go get a life for yourself. Find something that you really enjoy doing and want to do and start doing it. When my husband is choosing to be angry/miserable/uptight ..... I grab my surf board and hit the surf. I refuse to let his up-tightness make ME miserable. Don't let his misery and unhappiness be yours. Everyone chooses their own happiness so choose to be happy!

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tell him if he loves you , he would stop. and if not then you will leave him

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Try an AL-ANON meeting for families of alcoholics.

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Beachhouse is right!

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Totally agree with Beach... She's got the right attitude... If he chooses to sit around making his life as miserable as possible and doesn't find anything worth trying to get better, than go do things for yourself to keep you happy... If you choose to stay with him, you HAVE to get out and about to save your own sanity... You can not let him continue to cause you pain and misery because he chooses to live that way... Let him know that you refuse to be as miserable as he is and that even if he doesn't have the will to live a happier and healthier life, that doesn't mean you don't... Take care of yourself... If you've offered him the opportunity to receive the gift of somehow getting help and he's refused to accept it, then you've done all you can do at this point...try to live your life in a happier manner and just maybe he will see what's going on and finally want it for himself. Best of luck!

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You can't change people

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Leave him. Its only going to get worse.

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The Al-Anon idea is a good one, as would be seeing a counselor. I'm not married to an alcoholic, but I grew up with an alcoholic father who wasn't much of a dad because he was either getting drunk or already there pretty much all the time he wasn't at work.
While I don't usually say ending a relationship solves anything, if he's serious about not quitting drinking, then he's not serious about his relationship with you. And that says divorce to me. Do you want to spend the next 20, 30, 40 years like this? Do you want to have children with him? If you already have children, is it good for them to see him drink his life away? What happens if he drinks and drives, and gets charged with DUI? Worse, what happens if he causes an accident and hurts or even kills someone? Please talk to someone who can give you some wise counsel. You have some serious thinking and major decisions ahead of you. You have a life ahead of you, and it shouldn't be miserable because your husband chooses the bottle over you.

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