My H did the same but for the booze part. It's hard for me to look at him and predict future behavior on past because for 22 years he was nothing even remotely close to the creature I see now. Even he admits its MLC but he found some article on the web last year that apparently PRAISED MLC instead of saying that it was usually devastating to a marriage. It said "it signalled a time for a great opportunity to have a second new life and if that new life involved a new mate well then maybe you made a bad choice with the first." I could kill the person who wrote that article. Of all the stuff on MLC it was the only thing he latched onto to help him feel that all his behavior was good. So now that he has turned into this other person, right, I don't know if he will ever lose this person or if this is really him for the future.
M45 Bomb 6/09; EA 6/10; Divorced 1/11 Proud single mom of 7 little feline girls and one little feline boy "Fall down 53 times. Get up 54." -- Zen saying