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Boyfriend drinking

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mumm321 · 15/02/2019 16:28

Hi. I'm just coming in here to ask if I'm being unreasonable or what is wrong with me? My boyfriend has a drink every weekend and I've been asking him from I found out I was pregnant which was about 30 weeks ago to not have a drink one weekend and we could do something together on a Friday night instead of him drinking. It hasn't happened once! I'm fed up now with everything. He says there's 7 days in a week why can't we do something then. But it's not like that. He works Most days and weekdays are borin. I never have anything to look forward to. For example the weekend. We argue every single Friday of life about him drinking. I honestly don't think I'm asking for much. Can someone please help me out. Am I being a physco or what?

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sillysmiles · 15/02/2019 17:09

It's not unreasonable to ask for one night together.
But it seems like you are in unnecessary conflict about it having to be a Friday night.
Also, he should be helping with the cooking/cleaning etc.
Meet after work on a Wednesday or Thursday night and go for dinner and then you sleep on Friday night and everyone's happy.
What are you asking him to do instead of meeting his friends?

mumm321 · 15/02/2019 17:11

Thank you all for the reply's. I think I am overreacting. I'm not a bad person or anything. I am just stressed out and being moody all the time. Im concerned at the health of my unborn child.

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sweetpeach91 · 15/02/2019 17:17

@mumm321 I'm not sure you can expect him to give up drinking altogether but I think you can certainly reasonably ask him to not do it every weekend with his friends in your house! I can imagine that's very annoying.

Ask him to go to the pub instead or another friends.

mumm321 · 15/02/2019 17:19

@sweetpeach91 I would never tell him he wasn't allowed to drink. That's not the case. I'm asking for one weekend so we can spend time together we both work a lot and only see each at night time really and that's wen we go to bed

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sillysmiles · 15/02/2019 17:22

And that is all very understandable. And you do need to have time together and imo to need to explain to him how worried you are and why you are worried. But that doesn't mean he doesn't get to meet his friends.
Things will change after the baby is born again anyway.

mayathebeealldaylong · 15/02/2019 17:25

He isn't going to stop suddenly when the lo is born.
It's a pattern you two both had but you stopped and he didn't and doesn't see the need to.
I would say you need to talk properly but the issue is that he see his actions as harmless and probably has friends that back that up.

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