How to get husband to leave?!

[SecretSquirreller]

My husband is an alcoholic, this week he has been on a home medicated detox to help him stop. Last night he got drunk (but vehemently denies it, of course). I have just asked him to leave, he has had so many chances. He says he isn't going, needs time to sort something out. I've said go to parents or hotel in the short term. He won't and has just gone back to playing on the Playstation. How can I get him to leave!! This is going to be so awkward.
He will take forever to organise a solution like a rental.

There is no way to make him leave. Is the property rented or mortgaged? Do you have children? Do you both work? What's stopping you leaving?

You need to be serious about separating: no sharing a bed, no doing his cooking. Contact the relative organisations to put separation in place.

Why don't you leave instead? That would give him a shock and you get time to yourself..

Do you jointly own your home? Do you rent together?

Turn off the power at the fuse?

there is no legal way of making anyone leave the marital home whether rented or owned, both have equal right to stay there,

the police may remove someone for violence threatening violence etc, but contrary to popular opinion you can throw them out and change the locks

a court order may be used; a legal separation needs his agreement if it involves him moving out, I'm not sure whether you can legally separate finances without his consent if they are jointly owned but I'm not sure

if someone does not want a divorce or a separation it can take ages to sort out with a divorce it is 5 years without agreement

i meant can't throw them out and change locks

Mine wouldn't leave either, I think he thought things would just go back to normal if he stayed put. So I left, moved into a rented house and left him in the marital home

I'm wanting to keep the house, we have a child and a lot of animals, I'm not moving out. We have a mortgage but I own the greater share of the house

If he's spending most of his time gaming then I'd remove the router. Make life as difficult for him as possible. No friendly words, no cooking, cleaning, laundry, whatever. He sleeps on the settee or you accidentally might keep waking him in the night.

See a solicitor and find out your options for buying him out.

Does he have a job?

No money for alcohol. So he must work if he's buying alcohol.

I doubt he'd be bothered if the OP left. He's too far gone into himself; he'd see it as an opportunity to drink without someone complaining.

OP you need to go down the legal route, I'm afraid. I really feel for you.

You need to see a solicitor to get your divorce in motion then because you can't make him leave. You can stop sharing any money with him, doing anything for him and the like.

I've been here OP. I owned the larger share in the house and when I asked him to leave he just ignored it and thought I'd change my mind. It took 3 weeks of firmly but calmly telling him to leave. He went to his mother's for a night or two then kept coming back. Finally it sunk in that I was serious and he stopped coming back, although... When I issued papers he reacted like a scalded cat, as if he thought I would change my mind so many months later. Because he was such a catch not!

Incidentally mine was an avid gamer too and played all the time and refused to do anything else. I cited it in our divorce papers )

If you're married I'm afraid you don't automatically own a greater part of the house, the start point is 50:50.

Tell him you are now officially separated and do what Things said (ie no cooking etc, live completely separately) and see a solicitor to get the ball rolling.