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My husband is a secret drinker.., how long do I put up with it?

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Joiningthegossip · 05/01/2018 05:08

Hi everyone,
I’m new, but need some advice!:)
I’ve been with my husband 6 years, he’s 30 I’m
28 and we have two children, he has enjoyed a drink since the day we met - I’m a non drinker so quite honestly I hate it because I just watch him become this loner type drinker who’s in his own world., any whoo, I keep finding cans of cider hidden around the house, garden even empty cans put back in the fridge to look unopened. He comes in from Work looking quite clearly drunk but he will still deny it, tonight he has drunk neat Bombay sapphire and filled the bottle back up with water.. he really thinks I’m stupid it’s starting to wind me up! He obviously has an addiction but is not willing to face up to it.

I’m now on the sofa as I can’t stand sleeping next to a drunk.

What do I do now? It’s making me really dislike him as a person. In the evening he disappears “just popping to the van” “having a fag” “need to get something from the village” I know each time he has a hidden drink so he goes out to drink it, it’s just weird.

Even his mum has popped to the shop with him before and she told me he downed a drink on the way home and told her not to tell me as I will get cross, so I know he does it when I’m
Not around.

Any advice please? :) thank you x

OP posts:
Isetan · 05/01/2018 13:05

He's hiding his drinking because he thinks he knows his drinking is in excess and doesn't want you knowing.

He is most probably dependant on alcohol and until he admits and gets help for his alcohol misuse, there's nothing you can do.

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