Hello everyone. I just wanted to thank you all for your support and words of wisdom-I appreciate them all so much. I thought I would share an update of this situation with you.

My boyfriend and I had the talk on Friday after I was finished work. It went "well" in the way that I said everything I wanted and needed to say. After a lengthy speech and lots of tears, it came down to me saying that it was either me or alcohol, he could no longer have both, so if drinking was that important to him we were finished. He held me tight after this. He was fairly quiet through most of me talking, he did not argue, and agreed with everything I said.

He said he really is in love with me and doesn't want to lose me. I told him it wasn't that easy, he wouldn't just be able to stop drinking like that, and he said he knew but he would do it if it meant staying with me.

This weekend we spent the weekend camping with his friends at mud drags/races. This is normally an event where my boyfriend would be loaded from Friday to Sunday. I met him there late Friday night, as he went up with a friend after our talk. When we met up he had not had a single beer as of yet. I am happy and somewhat surprised to say he did not get intoxicated at all over the weekend. He WAS drinking beer, but few and he drank very slowly. It was clear he was not at all intoxicated at any time. Of course I would have preferred if he hadn't drank at all, but I am satisfied with how he was over the weekend. His friend tried to get him to do shots of whisky as well, which he did not do. My boyfriend said he had a good time over the weekend, and it was really nice to actually remember the mud drag weekend "for once."

I know this stuggle is far from over, but I'm hoping were headed in the right direction.

P.S. He deleted the female friend's number out of his cell before we had our talk. About time.