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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH is an alcoholic and no one but me knows.  He drinks about a quart of gin every couple of days.  He doesn't drive drunk.  He doesn't appear drunk.  I feel his mood change at night as the night goes on. [/quote]

That's like two drinks a night. Maybe you find drinking in general problematic but I wouldn't call that alcoholism.[/quote]

DP. That's why "alcoholism" isn't what the professionals call it any more. They talk about "alcohol use disorder" for your messed up chemically dependent alcoholics. It's "alcohol misuse" for someone like PP's DH who could probably quit without medical intervention but is still causing relationship issues (PP mentions the mood change) with alcohol.[/quote]

Well we are discussing functioning alcoholics in this one. Not daily drinkers who really don't have a problem, other than a spouse who feels any amount of drinking is bad. Also, pp mentioned a mood change, but never said it caused problems. [/quote]

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