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My husband, I thought he might be an alcoholic ？ ….

Although it depends on the country of assignment, some people increase their drinking while on overseas assignment and become alcoholics.

However, it is difficult to draw a line between how much is "just drinking too much" and how much is alcoholism requiring treatment.

Medically, the WHO diagnostic criteria are well known, and some of you may have already searched for them on the web and tried them.

Since such medical diagnostic criteria are available on the Internet, please try them first.
In this column, I would like to tell you about "common episodes of alcohol-dependent couples" that are told at divorce counseling sessions.

① Uncontrollable

To put it simply, alcoholism is a condition in which a person cannot control his/her drinking.

Suppose you asked your husband （ wife ） who drinks too much to give you a day off a week, or to allow you to drink but only one drink.

Then the husband （ and wife ） may want to do so and say, "Okay," but they end up drinking every day or drinking until they are drunk even if they only have one drink.

② There are many episodes of drinking failure

For example, there are various failures ranging from a light failure such as missing the last train and spending the night on a station platform to a heavy failure such as driving a car while drunk and causing an accident or getting into a fight with another person and causing injury. There are various failures from light failures, such as spending the night at the station home after missing a train. In addition, there are several other episodes that we are often asked about, so please check out the videos and the main column.