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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH drinks daily. His doctor has been telling him to reduce the intake (he monitors labs), after 10 years of me kind of disapproving passively, it's escalated. He mostly drinks when he's stressed, but that ends up being 6 times a week!!! He drinks 3 glasses of wine on a weekday. He goes out and drinks 6 beers and justifies it saying he drank it over a 5 hour period. I once did an online test of "see if your loved one is an alcoholic" - i told him the results of that test and he denied it, saying it doesn't affect his work. True, he won't miss work due to drinking the night before, he won't drink on the job. But its' still a lot. 
 
He recently has come to a realization that he is indeed an alcoholic, but he tells me to let him continue as it's his only vice. This is true, but our kids are under 6. We are already 41 and starting to have some health issues. He's a rational guy in a professional field, but when it comes to this, he's utterly irrational.

Frankly, I don't know whether to push this with him or not. Drinking does relax him and he will say things like, how come I don't decrease carb intake (especially ice cream) when I have diabetes and my doctor has been telling me my a1c numbers are getting worse.

At the moment, we each get a "vice" but Idk how long this will be sustainable without us suffering some big health consequence. [/quote]

My DH is like this too - he drinks a lot of beer daily after work. We fight about it regularly. The only saving grace is he knows he drinks too much and tries to work with me. What we are doing now is for him to start drinking as late as possible (after dinner, after kids have gone to bed).  Then I hang out with him for a bit before he gets tipsy, then I go to bed. I think half the time he falls asleep watching TV anyway...[/quote]

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