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wwyd?? help please

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3rdbump · 18/05/2015 18:13

Am so so angry.
Am 38 plus 4 days pregnant it's 18.05 and oh is pissed AGAIN IN THE PUB!! This is becoming a really regular thing. He drank every night last week twice he got very drunk. Despite me about yo drop a baby Ann day soon he just doesn't seem to give a fuck????
Been together 12 years and this is baby 4. Other kids are 11, 10 and 2. Am so upset with him right now. What happens if I go into labour?? Why can't he stop drinking??
He is going around with a 55 year old man who has a serious alcohol problem who doesn't work. He actively seeks out my oh to drink with. He's a mutual friend I know his wife very well.
I can't cope with this shit I need support. Am anxious all the bloody time terrified when he leaves for work that he will cone back drunk. Or when he goes the shops he goes to stop into this blokes house to go drinking.
What should I do?? I want to leave right now but I can't. Kids at school. Am 39 weeks almost and family live 90 mile away

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Allthatnonsense · 18/05/2015 19:19

Is this new behaviour? If so, can you ask him why? Ask him what he thinks you should do? Ask him if he wants to leave.

Try not to hit the roof, aim for a calm conversation when he is sober.

3rdbump · 18/05/2015 20:16

Sadly no, its a one f his phases he goes through every few months. All i wanted to do this afternoon was go to bed and chill out, not feeling too well at the moment, raging SPD and still doing light work from home. All he had to do was make tea for kids and ut them to bed so i can have a bath and chill.
Instead he is fast asleep passed out in bed whilst i have been cooking/cleaning busy putting our 2 yr old to bed :(
So so sick of him .
I have tried talking to him when he's sober yet he still does it.
Hi dad lives up the road and will be here till the morning - so if anything does happen he can come and have the kids and will have to drive myself the hospital.
I hope i bloody do go into labour when he's drunk. Serve him right.
GROW THE FUCK UP

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lauraa4 · 18/05/2015 21:12

Do you think he has a problem or is he just a binge drinker? Either way he needs to man the fuck up, it's horrendous behaviour!

If you do happen to go into labour when he's drunk do you have someone who can be with you/ look after the little one you already have?

3rdbump · 18/05/2015 22:27

I have calmed down a bit now, had a bath and something to eat......

No, i think he has a problem - he's one of those people who have a tendency to carry on drinking and drinking once hes had one thats it. He cannot just have the one. The man he is going round with has some sort of depression, my OH is 32 this man is 55 and going through some sort of midlife crisis, he is my good friends husband. He doesn't go to work and drinks as soon as his wife leaves for work in the morning - he's straight on the phone to my OH telling him to come round for a drink etc....normally OH works during the day and doesn't engage, but he cannot work when the weather is bad ie very wet or high winds due to the nature of the job, it was raining today so work was cancelled. Fair enough. OH said he was going into town to get some bits and if i wanted anything, all i wanted was a can of coke. That was 11am, he said he would be an hour tops. He came back at 3pm (no can of coke may i add) , i needed the car quickly as needed to pick up the little one at 315, so was a quick exchange of handing the key to me, i had suspicions he was probably out drinking with this bloke, i had text him earlier that day and he avoided answering when i asked if he was with this bloke (obvious he was). He then took his work van and went (presuming he went to drop said bits off at his work place). I text him round 4ish and asked if he could come back as not feeling good and to make tea etc.....said he was on his way (always says this and i know its not so) so i get stressed, worried - he's obviously with this bloke, obviously drink driving, what if he has an accident? what if the police stop him? what if i go into labour? then i discover he is at the local pub. Am fuming mad. I came on here wrote the first message. Put little one in the car, Packed HIS bag and was about to march it down the pub when i met him half way - exchanged a few shouts through the wound down window. Came home half hour later - i needed to wind down as so upset and angry. He had ordered a chinese - my 11 and 10 year old so he was acting drunk when he came in. Went in the bedroom and he's completley passed out on the bed asleep.
Text friend (whose husband is the one with the drink problem) pre-warned her as she was coming home from work. She said he has been under a lot of stress and having problems again with his depression and how unfair it is to drag myself and my other half into there problems.

But i think, if it wasn't her husband he was out drinking with then it could of been someone else. I am not prepared to blame this bloke for leading him astray. He should know better. He has his own mind and knows how upset i get when he does this kind of thing.

I have tried talking to him when he's sober. He says he promises he wont do it blah blah blah but then says baby will be late anyway as the others where (despite the fact i have been having lots and lots of stop starting since 35 weeks).

Meanwhile i am dealing with other emotions and generally feeling a bit crap and low in general. I don't get out much lately and don't really see anyone so i have really ploughed myself into my business to keep busy and take my mind of it. I feel all the usual insecurities ie feeling fat/ugly unwanted etc and he is adding to this. he is so snappy all the time with me - christ he wont even rub my back or make me a cup of tea even when am crying in pain with spd or in the beginning HG he's just so cold.
He only gives me attention when he wants sex.

I just don't know what to do, I am due next Thursday and i am 100% today won't be the last of this sort of behavior.

In hindsight i should have left him a long time ago.

I have been nothing but 100% commited throughout our 12 - almost 13 year relationship. We have been engaged now for over a year, tht was a joke! tells me its not the right time to get married yet. WTF? 13 years and 4 kids and its still not the right time??
Everyone thinks its funny and am sick of being the butt of the family jokes about marriage.

All i want is a loving supportive partner, a marriage and to be respected and loved.
I am getting the total polar opposite

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Reekypear · 18/05/2015 22:30

Your on a road to nowhere with a drinker, they never changed they just shape shift until they get you back to thinking they can change.

Not being rude but permanent contraception would be a high priority after your birth, do you really want to keep having children with a man like this?

lauraa4 · 18/05/2015 22:56

What do you actually like about your relationship? Granted he's your children's dad but he sounds like a moron.

You deserve much better than putting up with this shit on a daily basis. The fact he's either too drunk or passed out to help you is disgusting. He will only get worse as he obviously thinks what he's doing is normal behaviour. he will only get away with what you allow him to get away with and by the sounds of it he's too selfish to care.

How long has he been like this? I think he needs professional help, but then again if he doesn't want it no one can help him but himself.

3rdbump · 18/05/2015 23:02

Reekypear your absolutely right.

Not planning anymore babies. Thought it would be nice to have another last baby similar age to our youngest as there is an 8 year gap between him and my younger daughter.
Too late now what's done is done.
Am 34 this year. Still not too old by far to move on from this relationship.
I am very lucky I can take my business with me as it's online based and fingers crossed it's doing well. I think plan is to have baby get on my feet again (well being wise ) then take the plunge and leave . We live in rented house at he moment and tenancy in his name so no hassles there. Just need to get a house sorted and a deposit to save for then we will be good to go.

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ARV1981 · 19/05/2015 21:48

I feel for you op. I spent nearly ten years with an alcoholic. The best thing I ever did was leave him. However, we didn't have children so not at all the same as you. Just saying I understand how you're feeling to some extent at least. They don't realise how they affect you, but that doesn't excuse the behaviour. My ex couldn't go a day without a drink towards the end of our relationship. It must have been one of the darkest times of my life.

Good luck with your new baby. Flowers

sianihedgehog · 20/05/2015 11:06

I'd hit the roof over that shit OP. I reckon at this point leaving him is the only sensible option.

popalot · 20/05/2015 16:48

He needs to leave, move in with his dad and stop giving you stress. If that doesn't make him see sense then you are better off without. Been there, done that. It's always 'I'll sort myself out after the baby comes' but that's too late!!! And a lie. The choice you have is: carry on living with someone like this or become a single parent without the stress of a drunk living with you.

I hope you aren't having to clean up all his drunken messes too (toilet accidents/sick).

I found life without an alcoholic much much much much easier. If he has any sense it will make him seek help to get off the booze. But, that's his issue and you need to concentrate on yourself and the baby. I don't believe babies are safe around drunks, as they can do silly things (pick up baby, drop baby, smother baby when they roll over) or nasty things (I hope he isn't a nasty drinker).

Good luck.

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