Need help… wife drove kids after drinking today…
I need advice. Wife drank today before driving my two kids
For a few months I have started realizing that my wife drinks more than I believe is safe and acceptable. Drinking 1-2+ bottles a night, most days a week.
She would get noticeably drunk one or two nights a week, sometimes to the point of her not remembering everything or even making sense when I would try to talk to her.
Needless to say I’ve been attempting to help her. Tried setting some boundaries and asked her not to drink two nights a week and never more than a bottle or whatever she was drinking before.
She couldn’t do it, and I started realizing she had been hiding it from me. Drinking during day when I’m at work, hiding bottles of wine in trash and making no trace of her drinking.
I have had a few ‘blow ups’ with empty threats at this point hoping she would come around, and thought things were ok for the last week or two but today happened….
I found she had drank 3/4 a bottle of wine before 2pm, and drove our 10mo old out to pick up our 4 year old from school and out for errands.
Never have I thought she would cross this line (obviously my fault..) and I have been furious and confused all afternoon.
She doesn’t understand the problem, doesn’t want to accept that I am as mad as I am for some reason.
What do I do?
I threatened to leave with the kids or have her leave, but she isn’t phased. I don’t want to cause huge problems for our family and bring others into this.
I am at a loss for what to do, and she keeps turning it around on me like I am the bad guy watching over her shoulder.