I write this as I lie in the spare room. I’m a confused, lost, doting dad of 3 young children and have been married for 15+ years.
My wife is drinking 2 bottles of wine a night recently. She often passes out on the sofa and it’s got to the point I just leave her there.
When she drinks it’s like she becomes a different person. She becomes so argumentative and she thinks she’s always in the right. Earlier this evening I wanted to go for an early night as her drunken remarks were winding me up, she followed me upstairs, blocked my path, hurled a mountain of abuse at me and then whacked me round the face. She then proceeded to scream profanities at me at she walked away down the stairs all whilst our kids sleep in the next room :(
This isn’t the first time, yet when I threaten to leave she uses the kids against me and says in front of them things like ‘daddy is leaving because of xyz’ which makes the kids start crying which then means I obviously can’t leave them as I love them more than I care for my own feelings.
I can’t go on like this. I don’t know what advice I want I just needed to write this for my own sanity.