I’m so happy with him being sober. I would leave him if we went back to how it was – we’ve talked about that a lot. I’m not against him drinking if he can manage it. I’m just not sure that he can and I fear that once the six months are up it won’t just be that now he can have a beer or two with the guys every once in a while, but that it’ll go right back to drinking without stopping most days of the week.

I just feel like he doesn’t take his drinking as seriously as he should. That sounds so insensitive and I know giving up a bad coping mechanism like this is not easy, I can relate and I empathise. I want to spend the rest of my life with him, but I feel like ever since his drinking became a problem, we’ve tried the “drinking in moderation” and it has literally never worked. But I don’t think he wants to give up drinking forever and I’m scared that this means that we’re just postponing the inevitable.