I have no job and no real home. I’m co-dependent and my ex-boyfriend was an alcoholic. We’ve been apart for 7 months now. My ex-boyfriend and I were together for a few years. I moved across the country to be with him and support his life with his child a couple years ago. I found out he had invited another woman into my home and that they had been “dating” for a month, 7 months ago. I moved back “home” to my family who is now somewhat estranged. I’m too old to have children so any family that I was hoping I would have is pretty much over….. I hate him for that, taking the last fertile years of my life. Even though, he told me that he wanted kids with me, when I brought up going to the doctor to get help with having a kid, he said it was my problem, not his. I kept hoping he would change. I changed my life, everything I did, and it was never enough for him. I knew if I left, I would have a hard time finding someone else to father my children, ...
Welcome: This will share my daily life with an alcoholic. I am not an addict. I live in a large metropolitan area with the addict. I met the addict four years ago. We are the same age and met through an online website. My views on addiction and this disease has severely changed in the past four years. Today, Friday, November 16th, 2018 - Drinking a beer or a glass of wine never phased me before this relationship unless I planned on driving somewhere, then I wouldn't drink alcohol. Now, I have to think about the feelings of the addict when I pop the top off of a beer bottle or pour a glass of wine to drink while eating dinner. I now ask if it's OK to drink an alcoholic drink and he always says to go ahead and have a drink of alcohol. I always worry about having a drink and if that would cause the alcoholic to want a drink. I have hidden bottles of wine or liquor in the home and have had to lock any alcohol that I have awa...