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To not clean up DH’s sick

308 replies

Dollyflip · 19/10/2025 07:45

DH went out for ‘a few drinks’ last night and rolled in at 1.15am. Our bedroom is downstairs and it’s all open plan downstairs. 11DD slept with me as we are up early for football. DD woke as dog was barking when he got back. Anyway he threw up all over himself on the couch it’s EVERYWHERE. DD was scared and upset as she could hear him just being sick. I went out saying ‘what the heck!!’ And left him to deal with it but he hasn’t. And he just sat saying to me stop being a fuckin prick and sorry. Now he’s fast asleep upstairs with all the sick left everywhere and I have to get up with my DD for football. Should I have cleaned it all up?? Or am I right leaving him to deal with it? I’m going upto him now and telling him he needs to sort it out. I’m so repulsed by him. We are going on holiday weds too but the way I feel now I hate his guts. He hasn’t been sick like this for a long time but has had incidents when hes been drunk which has lead to us nearly splitting up numerous times. I feel to blame as if I had split last time this wouldn’t of happened and my DD wouldn’t be upset!

OP posts:
Eenameenadeeka · 19/10/2025 07:46

Yuck, no. He definitely needs to be the one to clean it up.

blueluce85 · 19/10/2025 07:47

Hell no, take the kids out of the day so they don't need to be around it or him and leave him to sort it. Come back after dinner

thatsmyhouse · 19/10/2025 07:47

Absolutely disgusting. It must stink and surely there will be items that need replacing if it's on furniture and been left to dry. It's vile.

Absolutelydonewithit · 19/10/2025 07:49

Oh god no - I’d let him clear that up and quite honestly I’d stay out of the house until it’s done properly. Gross.

Tamfs · 19/10/2025 07:49

It's for him to clean up, and replace what needs replacing. I would also go out fur the day and let him get himself through his own hangover.

Then it would be serious talk time.

Footloosefiona · 19/10/2025 07:50

I'd cancel the holiday and spend the money on a divorce .

caffelattetogo · 19/10/2025 07:51

Wake him up and make him clean up his mess. What a disgusting prick.

GiantTeddyIsTired · 19/10/2025 07:51

Christ no - Macdonalds breakfast it is - just run through the living room, out the door and don't come back until he's cleaned it!

lovemyboyz247 · 19/10/2025 07:52

No way. Leave it for him to deal with it when he wakes up.

it’s bad enough he came home off his face, but then to swear at you after throwing up everywhere. What an idiot. I hope he apologises to you and your daughter when you get home

Summerbay23 · 19/10/2025 07:53

Yeah this is bad, I definitely wouldn’t clean it up. It’s supremely bad parenting and disrespectful to you. I’m sure many of us have had a few too many but neither myself or my husband have thrown up all over furniture as an adult.

Barney16 · 19/10/2025 07:54

Send him a text, along the lines of so today is football with DD, lunch out, wander about the shops, tea and cake, home about 5pm. By which time he will have cleaned up and made sure the house doesn't smell of sick.

LakieLady · 19/10/2025 07:55

Good grief, that's vile.

Drinking to the point of puking is one thing, but to be so out of it that you puke everywhere is disgusting. And to go to bed and leave it for you to clear up is contemptuous, OP.

I used to drink to the point of vomitting from time to time, but I haven't thrown up anywhere inappropriate since I was in my teens. He needs to grow up and either learn where his limits are or at least have a bowl or bucket on standby.

Zanatdy · 19/10/2025 07:55

It needs cleaning sooner rather than later so wake him up or clean it. It will probably need something like a spot wash to properly clean it. Gross.

Keepgettingolder81 · 19/10/2025 08:01

Wake him up and tell him to clean it!

if it is not done, leave and stay elsewhere until it is.

wtf??

PrioritisePleasure24 · 19/10/2025 08:03

I’m sure if DD is playing football she is going to have to come home for shower/change but i’d do that and then go back out again if you can.

Katemax82 · 19/10/2025 08:06

Why the fuck didn't he be sick in the toilet?

Idontknowhatnametochoose · 19/10/2025 08:07

That's absolutely horrible.

No way would i be cleaning up the puke of an adult who is perfectly capable of doing it himself. Where is his self respect and respect for you? His embarrassment?

It would give me the ick so badly I couldn't have sex with him again.

Wannabedisneyprincess · 19/10/2025 08:07

I occasionally drink beyond my known point (usually once a year now but in the past all the time) and have never been since anywhere that wasn’t a toilet

I don’t understand the posts about husbands coming in and throwing up everywhere as surely they know they are going to be sick (I can tell when I’m about the throw up and run to a suitable place)

agreed with PP go to football and text him from there, then stay out all day

mickandrorty · 19/10/2025 08:08

Do something about it even if it's wake him up to do it! I have horrible memories of piles of vomit over the floor and not being able to leave my room. This used to be a semi regular thing in my house when I was a child and I now have terrible emetophobia I am petrified of the sound of men being sick.

ShesTheAlbatross · 19/10/2025 08:09

Wake him up, if it gets left it will be much worse.

I also would be going out for the day and coming back after dinner.

Toooldtopretend · 19/10/2025 08:09

This is absolutely disgusting. Cleaning up after kids when they were young was bad enough never mind a grown man. Not sure it will ever come out of a sofa after being left though, and the smell 🤢. Make sure you buy lots of bicarbonate of soda in case (not that it should be your problem but you also have to live there).

let us know what his attitude is like when he wakes up, not sure I could cope with this.

pestowithwalnuts · 19/10/2025 08:09

Disgusting pig.
NO !! You don't clear it up. Leave for him

Might mean a new sofa tho.

Ex..and I stress Exdh pissed the bed on several occasions. He had to sort it out each time..cost him a few new mattresses.
Also opened the wardrobe and pissed all over his clothes..thankfully mine were in a different wardrobe.
Fucking men..!!!

ShesTheAlbatross · 19/10/2025 08:12

Wannabedisneyprincess · 19/10/2025 08:07

I occasionally drink beyond my known point (usually once a year now but in the past all the time) and have never been since anywhere that wasn’t a toilet

I don’t understand the posts about husbands coming in and throwing up everywhere as surely they know they are going to be sick (I can tell when I’m about the throw up and run to a suitable place)

agreed with PP go to football and text him from there, then stay out all day

Absolutely disgusting isn’t it. DH has occasionally drunk to the point of vomiting in the past (we’re both teetotal now and have been for years, but back before we had children we both drank) but it was always in the toilet! Not all over the house and then he just went to bed!

Meadowfinch · 19/10/2025 08:13

Wake him up now. Vomit is strongly acidic so the surface of anything he's left it to dry on, will be ruined.

Make him pay for the damage.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 19/10/2025 08:13

No way, he made no effort to make it to the bathroom or even wipe it up the mess.
It won't come out of the fabric now.
I'd want new furniture.
Can you visit a friend after football or have a nice breakfast, avoiding him for a few hours.

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