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[quote=Anonymous]I'm with you, OP. I was completely turned off by al-Anon. Frankly with a demanding full-time job and the challenge of child-rearing with a drunk husband, I didn't have time to be running around and trying a bunch of different meetings to find the right fit. Instead, I found a therapist who specialized in addiction -- not sure if yours does. I saw Anita Gadhia-Smith, who has offices in Georgetown and Bethesda.

You are right -- you can't control his drinking. But you can decide how much of it you are willing to tolerate. I have to disagree with the PP who said "nothing that you can do can change what he is doing to himself" -- that may be true in some cases. In my case, my therapist guided me through where to draw lines and after several months ended up helping me push my husband into rehab. He's now been sober for 2.5 years, and he knows as well as I do that he wouldn't be healthy if I wouldn't have steered him toward the change. But it was a diffiult process to get there and I wouldn't recommend doing it without professional help from someone who knows how an addict's mind works. Good luck.[/quote]

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