I gave dp an ultimatum that he could not move in with my kids and I unless he stopped smoking. He knew this was a deal breaker. He stopped smoking. That was a year ago. In between now and then I have found evidence (maybe anyway) that he has been smoking. The first time I found tobacco and papers in his work van - he said they were underneath other stuff when he emptied it and simply handed them to me and asked me to bin them which I did. There was nothing for months after that. Then I found 3 fag buts in the bin in the garage when I was emptying it - similar unconcerned response. To be fair he could have done a much better job hiding them if he needed to.
Sometimes he comes back from work and I'm sure he smells of smoke but he works with various heavy machines. I can't be 100% sure. He always denies smoking.
This week a colleague told me she saw him at the weekend in x town. He was there working. She said oh I waved but he didn't see me he was rolling a cigarette. Dp response was 'how could she have seen me I was on a building site all day with off road parking and if I was driving then I am way up in the van and she's down in an Audi saloon car how could she see that?' I have a vague notion in hindsight that she knows I asked him to stop smoking.
Sorry for the essay. Dp is going through a brutally stressful experience at the moment. I can forgive the odd cigarette it's the lying. I can't help feeling if he can lie that easily about this then what else is he lying about. Or can it be lying exclusively about smoking?
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Lying about smoking.
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