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Sister's Dh has been lying to her for their entire relationship

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TwoFourSixOhOne · 18/05/2013 13:41

She's asked me to post for advice.

When they met (six years ago) they talked about drug use, he has friends who openly use coke and she is anti drugs after a horrible experience with her dopehead ex.

He said that he had tried coke once, didn't like it, and although his mate was a user he avoided it.

There have been a couple of occasions over the years where it's come up again, and she's asked him outright whether he uses coke, he's assured her he doesn't and that he thinks his druggy mate is an idiot for it.

So they got married two years ago, bought a house and now have a five month old baby.

He has not been brilliant at curbing his social life, and has continued to go out most weekends, he'll go out at 3pm and stay out until closing time. My sister has obviously been disappointed and upset by this so was having a moan to her friend. Her friend said, come on, you know why he stays out so long. Dsis said, no, she really didn't. And her friend said, look, we should have told you before but he's a massive coke head.

It turns out that EVERYBODY in their circle knows this. Dsis's 'best friend' was actually introduced to him as 'this is X's DH, he does coke but X doesn't know and you mustn't ever tell her'.

They've let her marry him and have his baby based on this lie.

I could fucking murder him. I am also extremely angry with her so called friends, who have colluded in this fiction.

I had no idea and I'm usually quite good at sniffing out coke people (pardon the pun), I knew his tosser mate was a user the minute I met him.

When she confronted him he did that thing of only admitting so much, so over the course of the last week it's gone from 'only did it once or twice, never around you, never in the house' to 'every weekend, at home when you're in bed (with their baby around ffs), sneaking off to toot in the loos when we're out together'.

She told me yesterday and she was broken, she was talking about leaving him, but this morning they have talked and are going to work it out.

He maintains he's never spent money on it (I don't believe him but she does, they have separate money). She is on maternity leave and selling stuff on ebay to make money.

I have no idea how to help her, other than just to be there. I am disgusted with him, it's not so much the drug use that bites, it's the lying, he is obviously a very accomplished liar, he's lied to all of us and so have all Dsis's fucking 'friends'.

Please talk to me about this, I am wrung out and so sad and I need to support her.

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RandomMess · 18/05/2013 13:46

Your poor sister.

They are married, have a child, yet have seperate finances - who's idea was that...

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TwoFourSixOhOne · 18/05/2013 13:50

Good question, and it's not something I knew about until yesterday, we had assumed that they shared their money.

She was all fired up to leave him yesterday, and as much as I love him I was glad, because I can't see how she will ever trust him again.

But she wants to work it out, so I have to support her with that.

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RandomMess · 18/05/2013 13:51

I would support her but also be honest and say that you don't believe that he never pays for his coke...

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Cabrinha · 18/05/2013 13:51

RandomMess - my STBXH and I had separate finances with a child, it's not so unusual - and wasn't relevant to our upcoming divorce.

No way has he been a coke user all this time and not spent money on it though. Alternative is years of blagging it for free which (a) didn't happen and (b) isn't a nice trait either.

I'm sorry you are in a fairly powerless position, OP.

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Offred · 18/05/2013 13:53

:( poor you and your poor sister. Could you direct her to women's aid? It sounds as if she is at least being financially abused. Sure there will be more. In Merseyside we have the Venus centre to support women, if not in Merseyside do you have anything similar nearby? She needs some outside support so she isn't being taken in so much by his lies IMHO.

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TwoFourSixOhOne · 18/05/2013 13:53

I said that to her.

And regardless of whether he's buying the actual coke, he's definitely buying the ten pints of lager that go with it. Which makes me sick when she's doing cleaning jobs and ebaying stuff.

Cunt.

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RandomMess · 18/05/2013 13:57

Cabrinha - I asked whose idea was that in case it was all his to hide how much unexplained expenditure he had. I wasn't judging people who keep their finances seperate by mutual agreement.

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TwoFourSixOhOne · 18/05/2013 14:21

It is abusive, isn't it?

She won't agree.

To all intents and purposes hes'a lovely guy. Works hard, treats her well. We all thought his flaw was the pub lifestyle that he leads, and my sister accepted this as part of who he is.

But as it turns out he's been lying about something quite fundamental for the whole time.

If he'd been honest with her from the start she could have made an informed choice, he's taken that choice away from her.

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Lemonies · 18/05/2013 14:24

24601 if the 'friends' have covered this up for him how can sis stay with him and stay sane!

When he gets more adventurous and starts injecting sis and baby would be massively vulnerable.

Cunt is right.

Good luck in getting rid of the twat, sooner the better imo.

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ProphetOfDoom · 18/05/2013 14:29

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Offred · 18/05/2013 14:37

The Venus centre we have is for all kinds of issues, you wouldn't need to self-identify as abused to go (nor do you with WA but they are better known). If you have a women's centre like Venus then I think that'd be easier for her to handle perhaps?

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TwoFourSixOhOne · 18/05/2013 14:38

I think he will spin it so he keeps her and keeps his habit.

I was married to a liar,and it is the most draining thing. Out of all the abuse my ex doled out, the violence, the drugs, the nastiness, it was the lying that exhausted me and ground me down.

I'll look up the Venus centre and see if we have one locally, thank you.

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SofaCanary · 18/05/2013 14:47

Could he be dealing it to friends, pub regulars and stuff to fund his habit?

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TwoFourSixOhOne · 18/05/2013 14:58

Quite possibly.

He maintains that his best friend (I cannot stress how much I hate this man, by the way, he is the worst kind of scum) funds him. I can't see it, personally, but my sister is choosing to believe this.

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SofaCanary · 18/05/2013 15:10

Your sister needs to open her eyes, this cretin is never going to change his ways, they never do.

Bitter voice of experience talking here.

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clam · 18/05/2013 15:20

Why on earth would his friend be funding his coke habit? What'd be in it for him?

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UniqueAndAmazing · 18/05/2013 15:21
  1. he's paying for it himself
  2. he's a lying scumbag
  3. she's broke because he's buying drugs
  4. he knows this and yet continues to do so
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Cavort · 18/05/2013 15:31

I assume she's told him he needs to stop immediately? I think your Sis should <a class="break-all" href="//www.amazon.co.uk/Single-Urine-Testing-Crack-Cocaine/dp/B002Z8DZM0?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21" rel="nofollow noindex" target="_blank">buy some of these or similar and test him every time he comes back from a bender. Once a liar always a liar but she needs to find this out for herself.

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MooseBeTimeForSpring · 18/05/2013 15:38

What a bastard. If he's planning on being open and honest with her then he needs to be showing her his bank and credit card statements. If he refuses then he's hiding how he funds his habit.

He also needs to be kicking his mate to the kerb. Time to choose his wife and family over his friends. If he won't then I think she has her answer, sadly.

I hope things recover but I can't see this ending well.

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Hashtagwhatever · 18/05/2013 15:39

Been there done that

And the whole in the pub for hours on end eventually turns to days. She is best shot of him even atleast till he gets clean.

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Nehru · 18/05/2013 15:39

i know of a relation who was living with a functioning heroin addict for years without knowing.
He worked away, she had NO CLUE.
Kids, everything.

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Thumbwitch · 18/05/2013 15:43

What UniqueandAmazing said.

She really should leave him to it. I had an ex who lied and lied and lied about everything, he didn't do drugs but he was shit with money and kept borrowing off me. Like a fool I fell for it, even though at heart I didn't really believe him - I wanted to trust him. He told me that his new motorbike had been paid for by his boss, of all people! and that a friend was paying for lessons for him - yeah right. BUt it is astonishing what you can make yourself believe when you want to - in the end though, it's all just shit.

She has to leave for the sake of the baby, if not for herself. So :( - and she should get away from that circle of so-called friends too - if not one of them had the guts to stand up and tell her before she got completely involved that the guy was a lying cokehead, then none of them are worthy of the name "friend". Bastards.

Is it wrong of me to wonder how he can be a massive cokehead and she didn't notice though? Surely there are signs?

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DontmindifIdo · 18/05/2013 15:50

If he wants her to believe him, then he needs to log into his bank account and let her look - if he has large cash withdrawls regularly (which he will), he can explain where the money went.

Also, if he's using that regularly, then the basic minimum I would insist to allow the marriage to continue was that a)he gets help to stop using (saying he'll just stop isn't enough, he has to go to the GP and say he is using and ask for help) and b) he never goes out without her.

He'll probably say no to these conditions, but then he doesn't believe she'll actually throw him out.

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AThingInYourLife · 18/05/2013 15:51

He doesn't treat her well though, does he?

Ma

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AThingInYourLife · 18/05/2013 15:54

Maintaining his "pub lifestyle" once they had a child wasn't treating her well.

Maintaining separate finances while she was on maternity leave and having to take on cleaning work to make ends meet wasn't treating her well.

He must be quite charming to have convinced you to overlook that evidence of a shitty, selfish husband.

The fact that he also turns out to be a lying drug user should really be confirmation of what you already knew.

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