list of questions to determine if your drinking is possibly harming your family
1. Does your family complain that they do not have enough quality time with you?
2. Do you promise to do things or be places and fail to deliver?
3. Have the number of visitors (to your home) dwindled?
4. Have the invitations to parties and friends’ houses also reduced?
5. Do your children try to avoid you?
6. Are your kids’ grades deteriorating?
7. How are your finances?

A Few Reasons Why Alcoholism and Marriage Don’t Mix
Alcoholics tend to live in a constant state of resentment and blame.
Add to the mix the alcoholic’s tendency toward selfishness and self-centeredness.
Alcoholism directly interferes with intimacy in marriage.
Any tendency toward jealousy is magnified with alcohol abuse.
Alcoholism often leads to financial problems.
When one spouse is alcoholic, trouble. When both are alcoholic (or addicted in some other fashion), disaster.

How many divorces are the direct result of marriages affected by alcoholism? No doubt the statistics are high. Alcoholism and marriage truly do not mix.

Alcoholism and marriage are almost always a toxic mixture. Why? Because with time alcoholism gets worse, never better.