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DP has a needy friend

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Walker1178 · 21/06/2026 18:15

DP has a best mate, if I’m being nice he’s just a bit of a loser, single, unemployed, no family in contact. Smokes too much weed and is an alcoholic. He’s absolutely not my kind of people but over the last couple of months he’s been sober so spending more time with us. Today he’s had a major relapse as it’s father day and he hadn’t seen his teen daughter for a good few years despite her being relatively local.

They’re currently sat in our garden and whilst DP is sipping his beer, friend is downing his can faster and faster. Every so often he’ll come through the house and just start waffling on a load of rubbish. It’s stories I don’t particularly care about and for some reason he does a weird American accent.

I just want to relax in peace before the working week starts tomorrow. I don’t want to have to deal with a hungover DP. Anyone else fed up of being a gracious hostess?

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knottywig · 21/06/2026 18:21

Could you tell him it’s time to go, hide all the booze?

hididdlyho · 21/06/2026 18:50

Can you have a quiet word with your DP and approach it from the point of view that he's not being a good friend by joining him in drinking if he's trying to get sober? Maybe they'll take that as a queue to call it a day or at the very least continue drinking elsewhere so you can relax.

Walker1178 · 21/06/2026 19:40

He’s finally gone, after telling me several times that I’m the best, DP is a legend and he loves us both. I’m glad it hasn’t gone on all night, DP is drunk enough to not want to do it again any time soon. He’s a pretty good egg, as a HGV driver he doesn’t touch any drugs and rarely drinks - a 4 pack of Guinness will usually see him through the month, so I was probably being unreasonable.

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