It was a "holding pattern" for me until I could finally get out & move across the country. Y that time I had no family left & our daughter had already moved out of state. My situation wasn't about alcohol but it was about financial issues that I could no longer tolerate. 13 years of living separate in the same house was not easy. When I could finally get out I have never felt so much peace in my whole life & I never thought it would happen during all those years