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To make drunk husband sleep with his sick?

77 replies

rubyred84 · 18/11/2017 03:22

Dh has come home drunk from a works do. I could hear him banging about downstairs, then all goes quiet, then I hear him being sick. 5 mins later he appears in our room saying he's "messed up bad" and has been sick on our new £300 rug. I don't know what he's been drinking, but it literally smells like shit. I'm 10 weeks pregnant which doesn't help. So I have hoofed the rug into our snug room, and made him sleep in there on the sofa. I'm hoping this keeps the smell out of the rest of the house. I have two under 2 who will be up in under 3 hours, and I can't take them down to that smell. And I just can't stomach cleaning it (I was heaving the whole time I was moving said rug). Plus, a massive part of me thinks why the fuck should I have to.

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kalinkafoxtrot45 · 18/11/2017 11:21

Oh, the poor wee man, having to sleep near a sicked up on rug. Never mind waking up his pregnant wife and making her feel ill. I'd be issuing the kids with trombones and leaving him to it.

JonSnowsWife · 18/11/2017 11:23

The rug is £300. I'm guessing it's fairly heavy. Who's meant to lug the heavy rug outside? DH who's too drunk to do anything but not too drunk to go and inform OP what he's done? Or pregnant OP who's in the first trimester?

JonSnowsWife · 18/11/2017 11:59

we all get drunk from time to time

all?

Aeroflotgirl · 18/11/2017 12:01

No don't, you are not mean. He intentionally got himself drunk thus being sick. You are pregnant with little ones to look after, no leave that to him. Hopefully he will be more responsible in the future.

HarrietKettleWasHere · 18/11/2017 12:01

Why on EARTH would you splash out on a £300 rug when you're about to have 3 under 3?!!!

VladmirsPoutine · 18/11/2017 12:06

Why on EARTH would you splash out on a £300 rug when you're about to have 3 under 3?!!!

And the award for the most spectacularly missing the point goes to...

Anyway, I don't think you should be cleaning it. I hope he is incredibly contrite this morning and gets on with cleaning the mess he made.
I wouldn't lose my shit over this if it isn't a frequent occurrence.

Mrskeats · 18/11/2017 12:11

To the people saying they would clean it. What planet are you on?
This is rank behaviour.

AnyFucker · 18/11/2017 12:11

The getting drunk and spewing (if a rare occurence) doesn't bother me

No way would I clean up though

Katnisnevergreen · 18/11/2017 12:16

For me it would depend on how DH would act if the roles were reversed. I know that if I did this, he would look after me because he left bed me and is a good person. Therefore I would act in the same way.

In fact he has looked after me when I’ve been blind drunk, in fact better than I have looked after him.

Turn and turn about. He wouldn’t be a dick so neither would I

Iamagreyhoundhearmeroar · 18/11/2017 12:26

Why didn't you just put the rug in the garden and tell him to deal with it the next morning? Heaving it into a different room and then making him sleep in there is a bit spiteful Confused

Nanny0gg · 18/11/2017 12:30

We all get drunk from time to time, not meaning to but we get carried away especially with special nights out,

Um. No we don't. I don't understand when this has become 'normal' (however occasionally). I stopped getting drunk to oblivion once my clubbing days were over. Never been drunk since I met my DH. And nor has he.

And bicarb sprinkled liberally on the rug once it's cleaned will be your friend. Absorbs odours.

WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid · 18/11/2017 12:33

To the people saying they would clean it. What planet are you on

Dh did something similar when I was pregnant. I cleaned it up and told him he was a knob. Kept our daughter out of his hair for the rest of the day so he could recover.
He tends to get spectacularly drunk once every 10 years. As do I. He’s forgiven my occasional knobish (and looked after me) behaviour and I’ve forgiven his.

peachgreen · 18/11/2017 15:40

We all get drunk from time to time, not meaning to but we get carried away especially with special nights out, and sometimes we're sick because of it, never on purpose.

I can’t imagine there are many people who get so drunk they can’t even make it to the toilet to vomit when they have a pregnant wife and two children under 2! Completely irresponsible and massively juvenile.**

WineAndTiramisu · 18/11/2017 16:53

HarrietKettleWasHere
Why on EARTH would you splash out on a £300 rug when you're about to have 3 under 3?!!!

Why the fuck shouldn't she? Who made you the rug/money police?!

Iamagreyhoundhearmeroar · 18/11/2017 16:56

The rug police? Hmm. What a ridiculous comment

TDHManchester · 18/11/2017 16:59

YANBU..WTF ,his partner is 10 months pregnant and he goes out and comes home lashed and spewing?? Oh please....Now i am first to admit i can be a boring feck but one thing i cant stand is drunkeness and people spewing.

IamSpartacusTheGardener · 18/11/2017 17:11

A few years ago when I was SpartacusTheDirector I finally achieved nirvana and purchased my pride and joy. A Jag. In the first week of ownership I collected my wife from a works do. She was completely smashed and in spite of precautions (open window) heaved all over the dash, seat and carpets. I got her home, carried her upstairs, cleaned her up, got her to bed and then at 1am started cleaning my pride and joy. Leave The Bitch? No way. Isn't this the sort of thing you do for someone you love?

WunWun · 18/11/2017 17:39

Fuck no I wouldn't do it for anyone I love if it was because of drinking.

WunWun · 18/11/2017 17:40

10 months pregnant Grin

MoistCantaloupe · 18/11/2017 17:40

My two year old has a rug police playmat.

IamSpartacusTheGardener · 18/11/2017 17:44

WunWun - how deep is your love? Smile

MaryPoppinsPenguins · 18/11/2017 17:52

I’ve come back from a works night out and thrown up on the bedroom floor... (years ago!) DH was very kind, looked after me, cleaned it up, made me drink water and put paracetamol and a Coke by the bed for the morning.

Sometimes people make mistakes. I’d do the same for him.

BusterGonad · 18/11/2017 17:53

Cleaning the rug depends on your relationship, I would clean the rug but let him know he was a dick the night before and that he owes me one, both me and my husband occasionally get drunk, neither of us has ever been sick on the carpet but I think the people replying who never ever get drunk must be quite controlled. Fair play to them but I (as does my husband) enjoy a drink and very very occasionally we do have a few too many. We are only human after all.

Mrskeats · 18/11/2017 20:01

Agreed peach

Glitterbabe69 · 18/11/2017 23:06

So what happened when he woke up?