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What should I do (relationship advice)

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DaffodilsAndDandelions · 24/09/2019 10:42

So my partner has form for getting very drunk every Sunday afternoon from 3-7 when I take our 9month old to go pick him up. This Sunday we were on a family weekend away and he still got drunk tho not as bad. The main throng is he was at the swimming pool with his 6 year old (my stepson) who can’t swim but was happy playing in the children’s pool while his daddy was on the side. Also there were my sister and boyfriend. I’d taken the baby back to the lodge for a snooze.
We fell out upon his eventual return as he was in my opinion too drunk to have been a responsible adult at the pool and to ride the tag along bicycle back.

Other drinking on his part is
Monday evening getting back about 6
Same on a Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday mostly nothing though sometimes he’ll sneak in a couple if I’m picking both boys up from his mums.
Friday drinking after work getting home about 6. I pick stepson up from school and take both children somewhere fun then cool tea.
Saturday after dropping stepson off at his mums he’ll want to go for a drink which means taking the baby too which is ok for an hour but then he’s bored and hungry so I drive home.

When he’s consumed a lot of alcohol we fall out, he blames it on me.
On a week night he just falls asleep on the sofa.

I don’t trust him to not sneak in a beer before collecting the baby after his days with gran so I end up getting both children.
I never get a night off for myself
His week he’s got a committee meeting in a pub and a night out with friends planned for 2/3 nights his eldest stays at ours so I am parenting both those nights. He’ll still expect to have his usual Friday evening out too and then we are back to Sunday.

What should I do?

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Bananalanacake · 27/09/2019 07:58

think of all the extra money you would have each month if he didn't drink at all.

DaffodilsAndDandelions · 27/09/2019 14:59

Well, that went a lot better than expected. My letter was well received, I even got a Thankyou for writing it and an admission of having problems. We will talk more this evening when the boys are in bed. Family outing to soft play now instead of just me and boys 😊

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Lagatha · 27/09/2019 15:25

That's good news, fingers crossed for you all

Confrontayshunme · 27/09/2019 16:27

My friend's DH was exactly the same. He worked in the restaurant industry and I and other friends got concerned at how often he was coming late to school pickups and how he was often taking the 2yo to the pub. I tried to gently say something to friend, but she insisted everything was under control and he was stopping.

A year later, he was stopped by police as he had left their 3yo somewhere alone while he drank. He was unable to have kids alone and lost his driving licence. A few months later, he was in a terrible bike accident as he was drunk and pedaled into a car. He tried to play it off despite having a broken ankle and shoulder (bc he was drunk).

It's all fine and under control until it isn't. Alcoholics always stop when you ask them to, but it doesn't last.

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