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To think my partner should stop sulking about me forbidding him to grow pot at home?

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betenoire2012 · 15/10/2014 01:49

I'm 35 weeks pregnant. Partner likes a smoke in the evening to relax. He's a stay at home dad. Doesn't smoke around our toddler. Recently he's become obsessed with researching growing weed at home (saw the 'history' on our shared pc), despite us arguing countless times about how it's illegal, a family home, a rented home etc. He often silently sulks when he gets a deal which isn't very good quality (?) and when I asked him last night what was wrong he blew his top about how he's a 40 year old man and shouldn't have to buy off the streets. He also keeps saying it's my choice that he's wasting all my money on it.He's become so adamant that I'm preventing his life long dream (?) of growing his own, he even wants us to move out of rented and buy our own home so he can cultivate a plant in the loft without risking the landlord finding out (one of my many concerns). I feel totally helpless and alone in my supposedly happy final months of pregnancy. Although I usually confide in my mum about problems, this is a topic I really don't want her to know about, as I know she'd tell me to leave him/ throw him out.
He is so distant at the minute I would rather my mum or anyone else be my birthing partner...don't know what to do. My mum lives 10 hours (a flight) away and I just want to escape there with our DD who's 2, but I think it's too late in the pg for me to fly. Plus he doesn't have resources of his own as we live off my salary, so I don't know where/ how he'd go if I asked him to go...

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TooMuchCantBreathe · 15/10/2014 07:26

The effects of weed lasts far longer than the effects of alcohol for example. Depending on the amount he smokes atatnight it's quite possible he's still affected the next day when he's looking after your toddler. There have been some studies on its effects in relation to driving so it might be worth a look.

Why is he a sahd? I know I wouldn't want to fund someone's addiction whatever it was. I also wouldn't want to live with either an addict or a cocklodger. Obviously I don't know your partner is a cocklodger because you've not gone into your reasons.

ithoughtofitfirst · 15/10/2014 07:31

Wow.

BMW6 · 15/10/2014 07:32

And OP - Cannabis is the most important thing in the world to him. Not you. Not your children. His obsession (your word) leaves no room for anything alse.

Put your children first or be prepared to lose them.

MintyCoolMojito · 15/10/2014 07:46

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LizzieMint · 15/10/2014 08:03

You've posted about him before, haven't you? He sounds just as much of a waste of space as last time.
If it's too late in your pregnancy to fly to your mums (is she back in the uk?) can you not travel another way? Ferry, Eurostar, whatever? I think getting away from him and clearing your head for a few weeks would do you the world of good.

Aeroflotgirl · 15/10/2014 08:12

Op what the hell are you doing with this man! He is a drug adduct and you leave him alone with your child. This is not a nice future for your kids.

PerpendicularVincenzo · 15/10/2014 08:13

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ShirleyYoureNotSerious · 15/10/2014 08:23

Why are you living with a drug abuser ?

What the fukc makes you think it's ok to leave your toddler in the care of a drug abuser?

Who'll be paying for the start-up and running costs for the cultivation of his illegal drugs? Not this cocklodger!

How will you cope with a criminal record for being complicit in the crime?

Who'll be housing you and your child/ren when this cocklodging drug abuser's found out and your landlord evicts you?

He should be looking at supporting the family practically, financially, morally and legally as you near childbirth, not risking your reputation and the roof over your and your children's heads.

ShirleyYoureNotSerious · 15/10/2014 08:27

An advisor to the WHO states that cannabis is addictive MrsWolowitz. Not that this makes any difference to the OP. She needs the cocklodger out and as far away from her children as possible.

MiscellaneousAssortment · 15/10/2014 08:31

Cannabis isn't addictive? Err, not sure where that idea came from. Yes, it is. Like a good many things.

I'm afraid I agree with the other posters, in that you can't let this man look after your child. I'm so sorry that you're dealing with this when you need looking after & to feel supported, but it does need to be dealt with.

How would you manage if he no longer looked after your toddler in the day?

Ps he's selfish and unpleasant btw, but I think you know that really. He's also behaving like an addict, and it's just not possible to have a healthy relationship with an addict who's quite happy to sacrifice you in order to pursue his addiction. Not nice.

PerpetualStudent · 15/10/2014 08:38

I don't disagree with the majority of post above, but just for balance, I grew up with my parents relatively regularly 'spicing up' their cigarettes with cannabis resin. They were (& are) responsible people with jobs & full lives for whom the occasional spliff was a small part.
Im now part way through a PhD with similarly successful siblings, so just to say smoking weed doesn't, in my experience, automatically equal awful parent. Im not saying normalising drug use is a good thing, but different people have different experiences & there are people who can carry it on as part of a 'normal' life.

However, this obsession with growing it, & the sulking, doesn't sound good. Tell him even the child of stoners isn't impressed!

amy83firsttimer · 15/10/2014 09:09

MN prides itself on free speech and informed debate yet if this man liked a large glass of wine after kids were in bed we'd all we saying 'just the one? Ha ha!!!' but because it's cannabis it's awful and a relationship ender? Very strange attitude.

On the other hand, sulking is an awful trait. I honestly don't think the french police would care too much if they found one plant but I'm agreed that if this really is his lifelong dream then I'd say it was safe to say that the weed has sapped his ambition!!!

Nanny0gg · 15/10/2014 09:15

yet if this man liked a large glass of wine after kids were in bed we'd all we saying 'just the one? Ha ha!!!yet if this man liked a large glass of wine after kids were in bed we'd all we saying 'just the one? Ha ha!!!

Um, not all actually and there is also the small matter of one being legal and the other not...

UsuallyLurking1 · 15/10/2014 09:19

So nannyogg are you saying that you would have an issue if the sahd had a large glass of wine in the evening, as that's what your post suggests

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MaryWestmacott · 15/10/2014 09:49

Well, you can't passively drink a large glass of wine (unless you're breastfed), you aren't breaking the law having a glass of wine, you aren't risking your tenancy, you aren't risking a custodial sentance, and there's a clear evidence that wine leaves your system a lot quicker than weed.

Growing your own means you can never go away either, it's not like you can just ask the neighbours to pop in and water your plants...

OP, you can keep posting about this overgrown manchild, but you will always get the same advice.

You are already the only adult in your household. It must be so draining.

UsuallyLurking1 · 15/10/2014 09:58

Whoa there, op has made clear there is no passive smoking risk here.

Link me to this clear evidence you have about it leaving the system?

You can find evidence of cannabis use after the event for longer than alcohol, but there is no evidence to suggest you are 'impaired' by cannabis for any longer. Indeed a number of studies show that drivers the day after smoking are significantly safer than those after drinking

amy83firsttimer · 15/10/2014 10:05

There are 3 distinct points.
1- cannabis after kids in bed - Ok or not?
2- reputational / legal risk - existence of / validity thereof in first place.
3- sulking.

My responses would be 1- fine
2- not bothered / shouldn't even be illegal.
3- not on / deal breaker.

magicalmrmistofelees · 15/10/2014 10:16

You live in the same county as your folks but your mum is a 10 hour flight away?

Get rid. Regardless of anything else, what 40 year old throws a tantrum?!

Sallyingforth · 15/10/2014 10:17

I don't normally say LTB, but have this one on me. Get rid of this cocklodger.

UsuallyLurking1 · 15/10/2014 10:22

Amy has hit nail on the head

Summerisle1 · 15/10/2014 10:23

I'd normally say that a 40 year old man ought to have a bit more commonsense. But then people who tend to hang around at home all day smoking weed usually do lose any sense of perspective.

You appear to be giving houseroom to a potheaded cocklodger. I'd seriously consider what benefits might accrue from continuing to do so.

Mammanat222 · 15/10/2014 10:51

My partner smokes - he has been to rehab [I asked him to leave when our DS was young and he wasn't able to tackle his habit] and his daily habit is now an occasional spliff at the weekend kind of thing.

Not ideal but a long way from were we were and on the track to fully giving up - he smokes roll-ups as well and is working towards stopping everything.

So I you could say I have a rather "lax" attitude to smoking and even I find your post alarming and downright scary.

You let this man look after your children? He doesn't work?

Jesus wept.

dreamerdoer · 15/10/2014 11:48

Leaving aside some of the slightly hysterical responses (dopehead? addict? abuser?). I think your partner is being unreasonable.

I'd quite like to grow some pot some day. Wouldn't be growing it in the attic of a rented house with my kids and pregnant partner in though.

His attitude is selfish. If this is a one off, 'argh Im getting older and I cant do those things I thought I would when I was young' kind of moment, talk it through with him. If this is a regular pattern, kick him to the curb.

MrsPiggie · 15/10/2014 12:38

I love the bit about a 40 year old man shouldn't have to buy off the streets. Because you know, it comes a time in our lives when we are grown up and have to start growing our own weed... I must have skipped that rite of passage...

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