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Trapped with an alcoholic I hate

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Whatintheworldgirl · 09/09/2023 20:01

Tw:discussion of alcohol abuse and SI!

My partner is an alcoholic. He passed out the other night in a toilet apparently. I didn't hear from him from 11am to the early hours the next day when he stumbled back in. I had taken my engagement ring off to wash and moisturise my face (I'm a jeweller so I know how much soap and lotions are bad for white gold) and he came back, saw my ring on the side and threw it at me. I sat in the garden till morning waiting for him to wake up in his hungover state. Fully decided I don't want to be with him anymore. I can't do this. He woke up, still drunk, shouting at me. I told him it was over and he tried to overdose on beta blockers. I had to take the box from me and call 111. They advised I take him to a&e. So I did. They discharged him a few hours with an AA leftlet. His parents text me saying they are going on holiday and have brought roaming on their phone so they are going to be unreachable (this is after their son tried to overdose) and said that it's 'all in my hands'. I've contacted the AA for him. Managed to get him the go in and fill in some forms. Then a group meeting. This should be progress but h hate him. I genuinely despise him. He's mean and self obsessed and is completely different to the person I originally thought he was. I'm now trapped on suicide and alcohol watch. I know it probably comes across that I have no sympathy but I've been close to death last year with health issues and I've constantly been trying to keep everyone together. Im just tired now. I'm tired of giving him everything all the time and to be ridiculed and made to feel lonely. Ever since being with him I've been on anti anxiety meds and I just feel like I've lost myself.

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lollydu · 10/09/2023 16:10

Omg you are not responsible! You do not have to be on suicide watch. Getting out of it might be what he needs. I have an alcoholic mother and sometimes we think we are helping but we are often enabling the behaviour without realising. He is responsible for his own actions and that's that. Not you.

RiotC · 10/09/2023 22:31

I have been where you are, at this point you're scared he will kill himself. I got to the point that I was wishing he did. I'm 4 years past it now, have a lovely husband who is not addicted to anything and the kind of life I could never have with him.
He's still a rollercoaster up and down (I know because he is my son's dad and still sees him) but actually in many ways he's better without me to pick him up, cover it up and try to mend him. He's only got himself to blame now.
Honestly the best thing I ever did, but also I get where you are. There are two years of posts on here about him gambling my money away, trying to stop me breastfeeding, pissing on the couch (so many times) ruining Christmas ... and I still didn't chuck him out. I wish I had done it sooner, it took a while to get over it, but it was like coming out of a fog.

NoTouch · 10/09/2023 22:44

Alcoholism is such a sad addiction and it is destroying his life. Dont let it destroy yours too.

Only he can change the path he is on and he needs to find it himself, you cant help him and you certainly are not responsibile for anything he chooses to do

dressedforcomfort · 11/09/2023 08:07

Don't leave. It's your flat. Get him out and change the locks. Call the police for assistance. He is not your husband. He has no claim over your flat. His next of kin are legally his parents and, even though they have chosen to wash their hands and disappear, he is their problem not yours.

The comment about you are not a rehabilitation centre for a dysfunctional man is absolutely spot on. Desperate men always use the threat of suicide to keep women in their control. He will keep you dangling on that string until the end of time and nothing will improve.

You need to act here. Are there any good friends/family members who can come and support you whilst you are going through this?

Mrsjayy · 11/09/2023 08:17

This isn't love its some toxic co dependency his mental health and alcoholism isn't your responsibility he's holding you hostage by popping pills so you drive him to hospital, this is the rest of your life if you stay with him? You are not trapped your own mental health is causing you to be trapped, get some help for you so you are strong enough to leave.

BitOutOfPractice · 11/09/2023 08:18

His own mother - his mother - has no hesitation in leaving him to it. Yet you are tying yourself in knots, making yourself ill over him. Why? He doesn’t care about you (apart from the roof over his head tut supply) He only cares about his next drink.

alcoholism is a disease. It’s a terrible destructive and heart breaking disease. And you can’t cure him. Any more than you could cure him of cancer or rheumatism.

Mrsjayy · 11/09/2023 08:18

Oh it's your house, get his keys And change your locks I don't blame his parents for going on holiday unreachable!

user1492757084 · 11/09/2023 08:20

He is not his parents' problem either.
I would contact Police to tell them you are kicking him out.
They might take him into lock up next time or put him into a halfway charity house.
Break up for good. Do not look back.

If you wait until his parents arrive you could give the parents the engagement ring when you drop him off (if it is from the drunkard partner). However I assume they will quickly spend that on him and be back at square one.

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