Ive recently split up from my partner. When we met he was a high functioning alcoholic but physically dependent on it. I didn’t realise this until I was in too deep because it didn’t really affect him in his day to day life. When I realised, I helped him and supported him to come off the drink so he was no longer drinking every day. After a few months he tried to drink socially but for the next year or so it was a tug of war, me seeing him slipping but him thinking he was managing it. I had been on the verge of leaving him many times over his drinking. I told him I had had enough of it just after Christmas just gone. Since then he has been having maybe 3 beers twice a week and has been doing well. We have since split up for different reasons, because he doesn’t want to get married again (he’s been there done that) and I have never been married and would like that with someone one day. I’m just wondering how likely is it that he can now just drink socially after being an alcoholic who drank every day. Half of me worries that without me around he will slip. The other half of me thinks after everything we have been through together I’ve left him at the time he seemed to finally be getting his act together so should I have stayed? Or if I had stayed is it likely he would have spiralled into drinking everyday again eventually?