Hi all. I wanted to ask your opinion about my stbx's thoughts on drinking. I am not an alcoholic, but my husband, who I am divorcing, is. I often come on to this group to 'learn' what he is going through and hope one day he can become sober. Anyway - the reason for me divorcing him is (I KNOW) from his drinking. He is not the man I married - has become entitlistic, knows everything, and everyone is an idiot. He basically decided to hate me a few years ago and divorcing him has been a 3-year night mare because he has become very greedy as well. He knows he is an alcoholic - in fact, I have texts from him that basically says "Thank God for beer." The other night he made a comment to me stating that drinking will only decrease his life span by 2 years, so you might as well drink up because rather than living to be 90, he will just die at 88. Then a few sentences later, he states that he thinks he has Acid Reflux. He also has metabolic syndrome, high triglycerides, is pre-diabetic (that was 3 years ago so he may be a full-blown diabetic by now) and has a huge beer gut. I'm just wondering if anyone else had that attitude while drinking. It just seems to me that even if he does live to be 88 - he's going to be in a lot of pain getting there. Thanks.