My Husband Needs Alcohol Rehab but Refuses to Admit He Has a Problem?

Question by CF: My husband needs alcohol rehab but refuses to admit he has a problem?
I was just wondering if there are any programs where you can commit someone with an addiction the way you could commit them for being mentally ill. My husband is an alcoholic, his mother is also an alcoholic and at the point in time when my husband realized he could use rehab she told him she would not help him pay for it, mainly because she is also a drunk and sees nothing wrong with it. Now she has him convinced he does not need help and I don’t know what to do.

We can’t afford treatment and as I said he now refuses to consider it but if I could find a place that would take payments AFTER he is sober we might be able to swing it. I would just need somewhere that I can check him in and he can’t check himself out and I don’t know if such a place exists.

My husband drinks entirely too much, not only does he drink while at work (which has cost him several jobs) and drink then drive, he drinks while he is driving which is very dangerous. He has only had a few minor accidents, all involving stationery items, and had been fortunate not to have been pulled over for driving drunk. I am worried he is going to hurt someone, not to mention this is tearing us apart and ruining our marriage. What can I do?

Best answer:

Answer by Charles R
Not what you want to hear, but unless and until *he* recognizes he has a problem there is not much you can do.

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