As I always seem to slate my dp on here I would just like to say...

[MascaraOHaraIncredibleSheHulk]

He has been a major arse many times in the past until the point I called it a day a little while back.

He convinced me to give it one last go and, well, since then he has been a little star.. he now gets up every morning with my dd, makes her breakfast and gets her ready for school while I get ready for work.. he stays in if I want him to, he spends most of the weekend with us and comes to watch dd swimming every Sunday morning and he has even started helping in the kitchen/sharing cooking duties..

I just thought as I always come here to moan about him, I should recognise his improvements/efforts here also.

Oh and the main thing NO drugs and substantially less beer! which is the major breakthrough.

I am delighted for you.

Good mascara - have posted on your 'slagging him off threads' and have wondered occasionally when I see your name, if you're still puuting up with crap.

so glad you're not.

Thanks - still early days yet I guess.. I think he understands though that if it doesn't continue then neither do we.

I think the no drugs was helped by the fact that I sat him down and explained the following to him (not exact words obviously)...

he does coke even though he knows I don't like it, thus he doesn't respect my feelings.. I'd quite like to maybe do things with other men when I get chatted up in bars but I don't because I respect him and his feelings and our relationship.. if he continued to disregard my feelings when it comes to drugs I didn't see why I should take him into consideration and therefore didn't see why I should remain faithful (in effect) and if I ever felt like doing anything with someone else I would (if he continued using) am I a bitch?