To ask if someone could someone live long with this level of drinking?

[mrlistersgelfbride]

Not very night, occasionally not even every week. But when they start they can't stop.

Maybe every Friday and/or Sunday, 20 to 30 units each. Football home matches twice a month, full days drinking say 30 units. Sometimes more, enough to be sick.

Boys trip, maybe 3 times a year, 100 units total.
Holidays, 4 or 5 days out of 7 , 20 to 30 units a day.

If someone drank like this could they live a long life without major health problems?

Impossible to say, the fact that it bothers you is the issue.
To be honest it’s a lot, but I bet a lot of men (and women) consume that amount - binge drinking. He may not be an alcoholic as such but the amount he’s drinking is unhealthy.

Just to say Anthony Hopkins has been sober for 47 years.

Can you live with it? I couldn't

My ex is an alcoholic (functioning) and I've done a lot of research into his longevity (mainly when we were divorcing to try to figure out the divorce set up and also when he was being incredibly hard work (stalking, generally nasty) to try to figure out how long I'd need to endure him!).

It would seem as PPs have said - it's a lottery with alcohol. Does he smoke, have mental health issues etc? Those factors cumulate - so my ex is a heavy smoker as well and statistically (everyone now watch my ex live to 90...), the combination of heavy smoking and drinking means it's unlikely he will get away with it for too long. One big factor on life span is poor mental health, that seems to take away quite a few years. Online life span calculators take away very little for drinking, a chunk for smoking and something like 15 years for unmanaged/ poorly managed mental health.

Dark as this post reads ( and I hope conveys how nasty he was/is!) I'm very pleased that my extensive research on this can be shared!

I know drinkers who packed away as many units as your DP and reached their 80s and 90s. Their wives had long miserable lives, not them.

One thing stands out from your posts @mrlistersgelfbride . You say alcohol doesn’t touch him while simultaneously giving lots of examples of how it does (at least the ones you can see). But it absolutely does touch you… and if it affects you, it’ll be affecting your child too 💐

It's hard to say unless he gets a physical and blood work done.

It catches up eventually.

My first husband seemed fine until he wasn't.

Died from alcoholism and smoking related cancer.

Head and neck cancers are particularly unpleasant. Such a risk.
I used to work on a stroke unit, such a massive risk there too. How's his BP? Has he been checked for diabetes/pre diabetes?
People often don't just drop dead with cardiovascular disease. You'd be the one left pushing his wheelchair as we saw so often.
Dear God, get out.