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[quote=Anonymous]If it is a one-weekend relapse after years of sobriety and if he is going to rehab and doesn't relapse I don't see the actual need for the children to be told "dad is an alcoholic." Telling them this about their father may make you feel good and place you as the better person/parent but that benefits you not the kids. Kids at that age are self-focused and will most likely forget about anything that happened this past weekend unless you make a big issue out of it. Do not mischaracterize my previous statement to mean that alcoholism is not a big deal. What I mean, and what everyone can understand, is that from a child's point of view things happen and they forget about stuff, even the non-ideal stuff... unless someone really makes them recognize it. Why would you want to imprint on you children that their father is an alcoholic unless it was objectively necessary? You should wait before you do this.[/quote]
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