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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks again for all the advice. I appreciate all the insights.

He's not moving in just because his lease is up. He's at my house more than half the week and we felt it didn't make sense to pay for a place he's not at for another year when we are trying to save $$ for other things. He could absolutely sign a new lease. I'm the one who wants a new/bigger house. Saving ourselves from a 2nd set of housing expenses in the DC area for another year would be huge.

The confusion/misunderstanding I'm having is that his drinking hasn't caused problems. He doesn't drink daily or hide when he drinks or blackout. He's not violent or abusive. He doesn't spend all our money on alcohol. He isn't getting in trouble. He doesn't miss work or skip out on things. [b]His issue with drinking is not cutting himself off before he gets frat-boy drunk [/b](I don't know how else to describe it...obnoxious? boisterous?)

Like I said, I've never knowingly been around an alcoholic, so his symptoms weren't computing to me as him being an alcoholic, just a binge drinker. (Is a binge drinker automatically an alcoholic?) He doesn't do or act in any of the ways you typically hear or imagine someone with alcoholism does. So, I really hope it doesn't seem like I'm downplaying it...I'm just trying to process all this new information. [/quote]

There are different kinds of alcoholics. They don't all do the same things. Many can be high functioning at work and in their personal lives and still have no control when they drink. [/quote]

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