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My husband and i have been married for 4 years and been going out for 9 year. i am 27 and he is 31, and i think he is an alcoholic. He always has to have cans of beer  and goes to the pub every night of the week.
I have tried to talk to him several times and he just say
'i go to work every day, So why not go to the pub and get drunk cuz their is nothing else to do (and often denies being drunk a all. He has said he would stop, but it is always the same. What can i do, Cuz it is pushing us apart?

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HI tanzy,

It is up to your husband to say whether or not he is an alcoholic. Regardless of that you will be the victim if you husband is an alcoholic in denial.  So long he remains in denial, there is little you can do. Most alcoholics have to reach "rock-bottom", before they realize have an addiction problem.

Why Alcoholics Drink? at
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/WAD.html

Addiction (Alcoholism) is a Treatable Disease at:
http://curezone.com/upload/PDF/Articles/jurplesman/alcoholism_treatable.pdf

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Hon. Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author of "Getting off the Hook"
Freely available at Google Book Search
Skype: jurplesman

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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist

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I have a degree in Psychology from the Sydney University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition. I am also the author of “GETTING OFF THE HOOK” which deals with the nutritional and psychological treatment of personality disorders. It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. I am interested in the relationship between nutrition and behaviour, and as a Probation ans Parole Officer facilitated groups for offenders, many of whom were alcoholics and drug addicts, sex offenders or compulsive gamblers, as well as the whole gamut of “personality disorders”. I am also the ex-editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia Newsletter, a quarterly publication dealing with hypoglycemia and related health problems. Its web site, together with a shortened course of PSYCHOTHERAPY can be visited at: http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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Nutritional Psychotherapy

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The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia

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Book: "Getting Off the Hook"freely available on the internet at Google Book Search.
Editor: Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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BA(Psych), Sydney University, Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr (International Academy of Nutrition)

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