more than the alcohol affects him or her. even if you are not battered or abused, you are because the alcohol wins. you feel defeated by a bottle.
you lose years of being loved. however, you need to grow old with someone that can love you and cuddle you. you need someone that turns to you and not to a bottle. living with an alcoholic is not easy and you grow tired of being the only one in the relationship that tries. the only choice you have is to leave and start new. you have to break free of the alcoholic and start a new life with someone that does not 