hi Lin,
Oooh I doo respect you AND your DH!! :)Wow and here I was thinking my DH came from such a disfunctional family....feeling that it might be too much for him to recover from. This is so inspirational. THank you!
You were so right when you said in Lisa's post to never say never. Because here you are piecing back your marriage! With such an history.

What I find striking is that my husband used to be so steadfast at breaking the chain and doing things right and different from his parents. He was so determent when we got married and our son was born. I feel it is one of the reasons he could not (and still has difficulties to talk to his dad. He just could not face him because what my H did was worse than what his father did and he always dispised his father for his actions.

I think I should read up on some of the adult children of alcoholics stuff. To get more insight. I am not sure to what meetings you went. Al-non? I don't think we have those over here.
I do understand what you mean by dry alcoholic. Maybe there is more info on that aswell.

I am so happy for you that you are moving forward!! Don't you sometimes look in the mirror and see what you have done? How far you came?
\:\) :)HUG B