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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell him to go to al-anon for support.

Statistically when it’s the husband who is the alcoholic, the wife toughs it out.  When it’s the woman, she usually gets dumped.

Addiction is a disease that very hard to treat because the person who needs to acknowledge there’s a problem and wants to change.  Even when they’ve come to this point, they may still relapse.  That’s why going to meetings is part of the program and enforced rehab doesn’t usually work.[/quote]

He’s been listening to their podcasts as not a free minute in his day to go to meetings.  She is an atheist and says she hates the AA meetings and the people there because of religious spin so won’t go anymore.[/quote]

A hopeless alcoholic will always have a good excuse not to attend AA.  Al-anon is great if he wants support and tools he can use while navigating his life with her.  It's not really that helpful in this situation.  I divorced my alcoholic wife when it became more important than anything to get my children away from her.  I should write a book on how I did it.  It won't be easy and she can refuse to cooperate, refuse to move out, and meanwhile, she will make any promises she has to in order to buy more time.  She may even agree to AA or some other program, but it just wastes more time.  I feel for your brother.  I've BTDT.  I wish I could talk to him.[/quote]

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