Don't freak out if you get the papers. As I said elsewhere (or in the post to you that disappeared??) maybe for you two to reconcile it does require a divorce. Maybe that's the only way she can see that the changes you make/made are real (cuz why would you still NOT drink, and stll act so much more mature and fatherly to the girls AFTER the divorce, if those changes are not real?
I mean, if you do get divorced, YET you are still "the new and improved Kevin, it will PROVE to her that YOU ARE THE NEW AND IMPROVED KEVIN AND THAT ONLY A FOOL WOULD LEAVE A MAN LIKE YOU.... you will have countered ALL the negatives her family said, and she came to believe (and some of them were true anyhow and needed changing soooo) and what are they going to say or think then? (Okay they probably won't think THEY were "wrong", but they MAY think you have changed b/c you have/are and in the end, they want what's best for their grandkids and if you become the "right guy" why would they oppose it?
You get great advice from 25 but I really think this may be some of the best. Kev you are doing great keep it up and realize that things are getting better for YOU...The better they get for you who knows what will happen BUT things will be better for YOU and your D's.
Me:40 W: 39 T: 17 years M: 15 years S-9 D-6 D final 11/10/2009
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."