Emmy - You can be the best parent you can be. Make no excuses or apologies for your husband. Tell your children the truth as it is applicable to there ages. Your husband is responsible for his drinking and bad temper. If you choose, for what ever reasons, to keep your children in this environment do not make them enablers and look into counseling to help them deal with what they are seeing and being exposed to in this situation.

I just want to knw what you do when you are in this type of marriage but you can't get out.  My husband is addicted to pain medication.  He is angry all the time and he has quit his job because he has hurt his back.  I'm working full time, I pay for our daughter to go to day care and now i'm paying child support for his children from a previous marriage.  i'm drowning.  I'm not happy, I'm extremely depressed, but we live in my parents rent house and we only have one vehicle (because his was reposesd) what do I do.  i feel like i'm going to lose my mind.