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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I'm gutted. It sounds like an unequivocally bad idea to marry him. [/quote]

I am married to a heavy drinker, and I know lots of them. Many have relatively happy marriages and lives, and even enjoy surprisingly good health despite the booze. But I don't know anyone who wakes up and has a drink. I can't imagine that ends well, though i could be wrong.[/quote]

My father was also a heavy drinker and he was a great dad, and I believe, a great husband.  The booze contributed to weight gain, which led to heart problems, so he died probably 5-10 years earlier than he would have if he wasn’t such a heavy drinker.  But they still had 40+ years of a good marriage, and he was healthy through most of it.  But he didn’t start drinking til he got home from work.  I agree with the earlier poster about starting to drink so early in the day - that timing would really concern me.[/quote]
PP, you really don't know what their marriage was especially whether or not it was a good one. Your mother just might have endured his alcoholism rather than kick him to the curb. I assure you that an absentee spouse, and if he drank every night heavily he WAS an absentee spouse, is not desirable and creates a miserable dynamic for the sober one. It is a virtual certainty that he was impotent and a good bet that she had little to no interest in him intimately.[/quote]

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