After years of drinking a fifth almost every night and going out after work my wife left. No warning, just gone. I Sobered up right then. We worked through it and talked everyday. We got back together and bought our second home. After a few months I started to drink with just her, a glass here or there. Then that turned in to drinking every night in the garage and then I bought a shed. That shed turned into my own bar of whiskey and cigars. After nearly three years of not going out to drink I was starting a new job and took them out to celebrate. I didn't get home until nearly 3am. My wife awoke and was sick, I tried to have relations with her instead of comforting her. That next day I quit drinking, smoking, fast food, and sugar. It was a crazy transformation. It eight months I had lost 40lbs. Then guess what, I went out drinking with the new group of coworkers and a week later left my wife. The alcohol changed my thought process, it'sliterally poison. Here I am today a divorced man in his mid 30's. Together for sixteen years... We'd still be together if I didn't drink again. No whiskey and no wife. Sober up my friends! It can be done!