Alcohol issue or cheating?

[Anonymous]

I’ve asked DH to cut way back on drinking due to it affecting his mood and ability to parent in the evenings. He has done so for the most part.
Last night I looked at his phone (flame me) and saw text messages that he had contacted a prior work colleague (female) to meet at a bar and “get drunk”.
When I confronted him, he said it was just a friend (of course added she was unattractive) and that he didn’t know why he did it. But that he was absolutely not intending to be unfaithful. They were just friends he stated.
I have never been worried about him cheating before, so I don’t know where to go with this...believe him and just add it to my list of reasons that he has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol? Or am I being naive?
Contacting a person of the opposite sex to drink with when the spouse doesn’t know is way over the line, right?? We have young kids, and again I have never worried about cheering. Definitely have worried about alcohol though...
Advice? I am so upset about this but realize I can’t make a mountain out of a molehill.

[Anonymous]

Cheering= cheating

[Anonymous]

I feel for you - no one wants to divorce a co-parent with a drinking problem.

[Anonymous]

I think it is an alcohol problem .... sliding into a cheating problem (but I don't think he's cheated yet.) You need to talk.

[Anonymous]

Single man here. I have a co-worker like that. We haven't had sex or done anything physical.

[Anonymous]

Probably not cheating but just hitting up a coworker who’s down to drink whenever.