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Partner violent when sugars are low.

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Badlytornfrube · 20/09/2021 16:19

My good friend has recently had a baby with her partner. He is a type 1 diabetic and has had trouble stabilising his sugars since a recent injury.

He has very verbally aggressive and has pushed her. Two weeks ago he bit her on the arm. Each time he has blamed it on a sugar low and has gone to the GP to ask for help with this. My friend thinks this is not a reason to leave and not his fault because of the sugars. He has never been violent towards his kids from a previous relationship or the new baby.

I think the blood sugar excuse is bollocks and she should run for the hills. The fact he has never hurt the kids proves he can control himself. She is financially fine and has a flat to go to.
Has anyone had any experience of low sugar causing violence? Is he responsible? Should she leave?

YABU not his fault
YANBU she should leave

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EstherMumsnet · 21/09/2021 22:12

Hi all, Let's keep this thread on track please, for the mods' sake if nothing else... Thanks

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HebeMumsnet · 22/09/2021 09:40

Morning, everyone,

This has been a tricky thread to moderate, mainly because there are such important points being made on both sides of this conversation.

While we could see that some people were upset or offended by some of the posts and understand why, there were as many reports asking us not to remove it as it had been helpful. It was also a support thread (albeit for the OP's friend) with lots of very informative posts, so we felt it was worth preserving if we could.

We've since had to delete a few posts and we are concerned that the thread is spiralling into personal attacks a little now. So we're going to close it to new posts now but we are going to leave the thread up so others can read the conversation, as we know it's been a useful discussion for many.

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