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mandyfins said:
It's odd (maybe a blessing in a strange way) how he's waited until our sons were teens to become regularly intoxicated.

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I have found that many people wait until they are older and have a lot more stress upon on them from family, friends, work, health, money etc before they start to drink as a means to numb the pain or thoughts they are having...... I wonder if there was someone in your husbands life that drank a lot to deal with their life issues?

BTW - my father was an alcoholic for most of our child hood and while five out of six children do not drink - the youngest of us all took up drinking to try and solve his life issues when he turned 30 years old.
Go Figure!