My wife gets violent after she’s had a few drinks – I don’t know what to do
DEAR DEIDRE: AFTER she has had a few glasses of wine, my wife can be really argumentative and physically violent.
I am 48 and she is 46. We are both divorced and got together eight years ago.
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At first, our relationship was fantastic but arguments have started to come between us.
She can be really volatile and spiteful when she has had a few drinks.
Then the next morning, she will go back to telling me how much she loves me.
She punched me during one nasty argument.
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I love her, but I’ve put a wall up and now we have sex once a fortnight, at most.
I am getting to the stage where I don’t care if we split up. I don’t know what to do.
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DEIDRE SAYS: Your wife’s drinking is making you miserable.
She won’t admit to herself her behaviour is to do with the alcohol, but you have to talk straight.
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