My alcoholic husband just began outpatient treatment for the first time on 2/9/14. Before that I endured years of physical and mental abuse and being taken for granted by him. I told him two weeks ago that I wanted top separate. He keeps blaming alcohol on why he treated me that way and claims that he has changed and wants to be the husband that I deserve. He also keeps swearing that he will never drink again and that he is never going to go back to being the alcoholic man he was in the recent past. I feel like I am at the point that I am strong enough to handle a divorce. We have only been married 2.5 years and have no children. My one fear is that I will regret my decision if he really has changed. I am wondering if other wives of alcoholics have been through this and what they ultimately decided to do. I told him I am afraid he will drink again at some point and the cycle will start again. Would it be a waste of my time to stick around and see if he really has changed?