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[quote=Anonymous]Don't know if anyone is still reading this but I'm pretty close to your fiancé.  I don't drink before work and very rarely during the day, but I think by most clinical evaluations I'd be a functioning alcoholic. Great career and fairly well known "thought leader" within my little space, beautiful family, house, vacations, perfect credit, treat people well (family, friends, and strangers), and I was lucky enough to be a "friendly" drunk rather than an angry one. But I need to drink pretty much every day.

I wouldn't fault you for leaving yours behind. It is going to be a huge, difficult part of your life forever if you stay; and strange as it seems to someone like me, I understand that booze is like a meaningless thing for most people. As opposed to a fundamental animating part of life. On balance you probably are better off without him long term. While I'm pretty well balanced now, when periods of extreme stress come along there is always a risk the drinking takes front and center. PPs are spot on with that.

But, biases acknowledged, humans have been drinking and MANY of them have been absolute drunks by modern standards for millennia. Great artists, great writers, great leaders, great business people, great teachers, great plumbers, and great nannies have all been drunks. You have to figure out what works for you. No one on DCUM can tell you. [/quote]

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