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Partner went for an "afternoon pint" and came home needing to be put to bed having taken magic mushrooms

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ByRoseSheep · 11/07/2026 19:50

I'm not sure what my AIBU question is here but I'm incredibly concerned

This is INCREDIBLY unlike my partner. He goes out a handful of times a year, usually in the afternoon for a few pints and is back in the evening. I'm completely and utterly stunned.

We did magic mushrooms together once 3 years ago. It was a pre-planned thing. We were early 20s at the time and didn't have any responsibilities. We'd made sure we were both off work the next day, and ensured we were in a safe environment. It was relatively harmless, we watched a film together and had a laugh, slept it off and that was that. Though overall the time we did magic mushrooms together was okay, he did present a bit of paranoia about a neighbour getting a parcel delivered. I'd taken a smaller dose than him and had to reassure him and sort of babysit him. After that we agreed it had been a one-off bucket list thing whilst young and that we had 0 interest in doing it again, especially since we had future plans involved building careers and having a family.

We also had a conversation again when I got pregnant with our planned baby that we'd never take the risk of anything like that ever again as the risk of having a bad reaction and resulting mental health issues is far too great when we have a child. He usually really has his shit together and is going for a promotion and we're in the middle of a mortgage application.

I'm now 8 months pregnant. He mentioned that his workmates had invited him out to watch the match tonight. He's not interested in the football and told me he wasn't going to bother. A bit later on he said he may just pop out for a few pints and enjoy the sun and he back for dinner. He booked his taxi, went off at about 3pm and I didn't think anything of it.

6pm I get a text saying "In the taxi on my way home." I replied and told him I'd done dinner. Honestly didn't think anything of it. He then said "When I get in put me to bed". I was shocked because I hadn't expected him to get drunk, he works at 7am tomorrow in quite a dangerous role that involves driving heavy machinery and they have a rule that you can't be drunk within a certain time period prior to a shift, and they do occasional drug and alcohol urine tests on employees without prior notice. I asked him how many pints he'd had an he replied saying "mushroom".

I let him in the house and he was laughing and giggling and started hugging me and saying sorry. I had to push him off me because he was unsteady on his feet and I was scared he'd fall on me and the bump. He told me "It's just about to kick in". I supervised him into bed and have now left him to it.

I am so fucking angry at him and feel like an absolute mug. This really is so unlike him, I cannot believe it. How can he be so stupid? What if I were to go into labour? What if he gets urine tested tomorrow and sacked? I'm incredibly stressed. We have no food in the house and I had been planning to go and get some but now I can't leave him. I'm hoping he stays asleep but I know usually on mushrooms you can't sleep. I'm concerned he will get up and start wandering around the house.

I feel like such a fucking mug for never considering that he would do this. I honestly don't think he's lied and pre-planned it, I think the stupid twat has been taken in by peer pressure from "the lads". I can't believe I'm pregnant by someone like this. I feel like once he comes round he's going to play it down. I had our health visitor appointment the other day and she had asked a general box-ticking question about whether anyone in the home is a drug user and I'd said no with no hesitation and now I feel like a liar. I'm devastated.

OP posts:
MyPearlMentor · 11/07/2026 21:45

Vitamin C. A glass of orange juice or a Berocca or Ribena, whatever you have. Don’t know how it works or why but I learned this in the 90s when I had a wild & reckless youth. There’s nothing more annoying than someone off their head when you are sober but I’d be kind to him today & have a hard conversation tomorrow.

RoseField1 · 11/07/2026 21:50

Pistachiocake · 11/07/2026 21:43

If he's driving tomorrow and kills someone, it'll be a lot less funny than some people seem to think.

Why would that happen? Psylocibin doesn't impair function the day after use

Whorulestheroost1 · 11/07/2026 22:15

Crushed23 · 11/07/2026 21:14

Are you on shrooms too?

😂

tinyspiny · 11/07/2026 22:24

@ByRoseSheep does he have any local family as I’d call someone and tell them that he needs watching and you are not prepared to do it .

BlackTogetherAgain67 · 11/07/2026 22:32

You do / did mushrooms together but you'd leave him if he did coke?

Slottiethesluttie · 11/07/2026 22:38

You’re both babies. Cut him some slack

PollyBell · 11/07/2026 22:40

So you did drugs together now he has done it himself you have a problem?

YouHaveAnArse · 11/07/2026 22:55

BlackTogetherAgain67 · 11/07/2026 22:32

You do / did mushrooms together but you'd leave him if he did coke?

OP might object to how dirty the coke trade is tbf.

RoseField1 · 11/07/2026 23:04

BlackTogetherAgain67 · 11/07/2026 22:32

You do / did mushrooms together but you'd leave him if he did coke?

Mushrooms grow in fields in England and get picked and sold by hippies. Coke grows in south American drug fields and is picked by slaves and sold by drug cartels. Quite different matters.

MissCooCooMcgoo · 12/07/2026 09:08

Morning @ByRoseSheep how'd it go? Hopefully your night wasn't too bad 💐

Snackccident · 12/07/2026 09:25

You have more patience than me op, I would have booked a hotel and left him to it. Being married doesn't make you his caretaker or guardian, if he wants to get high and bother the neighbours thats his problem.

I hope the night went well and he's suitably apologetic this morning.

Bobloblawww · 12/07/2026 09:31

If this happened to me I would laugh it off and order a pizza. You might have to chill out a bit otherwise parenting will be a really unpleasant ride.

PollyBell · 12/07/2026 09:34

RoseField1 · 11/07/2026 23:04

Mushrooms grow in fields in England and get picked and sold by hippies. Coke grows in south American drug fields and is picked by slaves and sold by drug cartels. Quite different matters.

I have lots of chemicals around the place I am not going to injest them because I have brains

RoseField1 · 12/07/2026 09:36

PollyBell · 12/07/2026 09:34

I have lots of chemicals around the place I am not going to injest them because I have brains

Brains? Plural?
Nobody is suggesting you ingest chemicals or magic mushrooms. But humans have been ingesting magic mushrooms for millennia. It's pretty harmless and a lot of fun.

HortiGal · 12/07/2026 09:45

Went to watch football at 3pm yesterday? what football would that be?
You'd just made dinner/ there’s no food in the house.
Has any of this even happened?

AnnaBelIa · 12/07/2026 09:52

Crushed23 · 11/07/2026 20:49

Just to add, I still think 28 is very young. Especially as you indicate that’s he’s had a relatively sensible 20s. I really got into partying and making the most of my 20s at the age of 27, after a realisation that I had mis-spent the early part of my 20s (doing lots of exams / qualifications rather than settling down). The feeling of “shit, what am I doing with my youth” can be very hard to ignore.

As someone who spent most of my 20s in education and then working, I relate so much to this!

I think with the cost of living crisis in the UK, it's even worse for young people now, because unless you have wealthy parents, you will spend your entire 20s (and possibly 30s) struggling to build something for yourself, and by the time you are 'comfortable' financially to enjoy yourself .. poof! ... youth is gone!

Beachtastic · 12/07/2026 09:57

How bizarre that he would choose to come home and go to bed (or rather, be "put to bed") just as the trip's kicking in. What a waste!

You can tell a lot about someone by how they behave when high, he sounds like a weak person.

newnovella · 12/07/2026 09:59

oh

😂

He'll surely sleep off. Then a chat will be needed. You may be incompatible if he is into experimenting with drugs and you are not.

Personally I'd absolutely hate this.

newnovella · 12/07/2026 10:02

baby's 4D scan image that we have stuck to the fridge is freaking him out.
😂They are quite freaky to be fair.

WhatNextImScared · Yesterday 04:03

How did this pan out, OP? Is he apologetic ?

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