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Does alcohol bring out the truth

37 replies

Whatshallwedotoday · 21/04/2020 03:10

My boyfriend (like a lot of men in their mod30s) likes to have a few drinks at the weekend and during lockdown, during the week also. I don’t have a problem with this, he’s a grown man and can do as he likes. I am not a big drinker and will stop after a couple.
The problem is, when he’s drunk, he tends to say stupid things, both to me and his friends and because I’m sober, they stick in my mind.
Some of the little gems he has come out with to his friends (in front of me)
Talking on the phone to his sister’s friend, he gets off phone after ages and his sister asks what they were talking about “we were wondering why we never got to know each other better”
Looking at photos of my friend and I on a night out, he asked if I would sleep with my friend. When I said no, he said “I would”
Out of the blue one night, he told me that we were sexually compatible because when he was with his ex, after she had finished riding him, her vaginal juices would give him a spotty pubic area
Talking to his friend when I stepped into the next room, telling him how much this particular woman turned him on and how he’d love to sleep with her
Telling me that his friends wife is extremely attractive, very, very attractive
He sometimes calls me horrible names when he’s drunk and tells me he regrets moving in together and that I suffocate him. Then, other times, he tells me I’m the love of his life and he wants to marry me and be with me forever.
When I try to talk to him about these things the next day, he says he was drunk and to ignore it. Some people say being drunk brings out the real side of people, I don’t know what to believe, if he doesn’t mean it, does that mean he doesn’t mean the nice stuff he says too?
It’s starting to really get me down.

OP posts:
LuluBellaBlue · 21/04/2020 08:16

I couldn’t ignore that, you can’t, does he want you to just wipe your memory???
Deal breaker for me, no matter how amazing he would be the rest of the time.

CockCarousel · 21/04/2020 08:20

Some abusers will purposely get drunk in order to abuse. Like setting up a scene for their terrible behaviour. The next day they feign ignorance/memory loss and blame the fact that they were intoxicated. I'd say the man you describe falls into that category.

Get away OP, repeated exposure to this kind of behaviour can break the strongest person.

HenSolo · 21/04/2020 08:21

Gotta say, I used to have a problem with alcohol and I would do nothing but lie and say things I didn’t mean. Some great big whoppers of lies too. However, your partner sounds utterly horrible and there is no reason at all you should have to put up with that whether it’s related to alcohol or not.

Wanderlust21 · 21/04/2020 08:29

Yuk. Grim.

Sorry but if he calls his partner horrible names when drunk then he shouldn't drink. He should be mortified and apologetic and stick to a one or two beer limit in future. If even. If it were me I may never drink again I'd be so ashamed of myself.

It may even be abuse op. I dont know if there is lower level stiff you just arent picking up on, when he is sober. But the drunk behaviour as is... ...he isnt husband material thats for sure.

Shoxfordian · 21/04/2020 08:39

In vino veritas

He's using alcohol as an excuse to be abusive
Dump him

Heatherjayne1972 · 21/04/2020 08:44

You deserve better than this

Techway · 21/04/2020 08:46

@Mucklowe, completely agree.

OP, Any man who denigrates his Ex WILL speak about you in the same way. What will he say about you?

CodenameVillanelle · 21/04/2020 08:50

I wouldn't be with a man who got that drunk that often to start with but one who verbally abuses me and tells me about other women he wants to fuck? Ew. Where are your standards?

Bananalanacake · 21/04/2020 08:55

If you don't have dc together he doesn't need to live with you, sounds like you are better off without him.

Gutterton · 21/04/2020 08:58

Urgh he is repulsive inside and out.

Ugly in words and actions - a slobbering sleaze ball creep.

One of those traits would be enough to move on from emotionally and verbally abusive, a problematic drinker and a creepy letch.

He is also choosing to humiliate you publicly.

These are not just words and thoughts - the mates sister phone call is actions. You have no idea how far he has gone when you are not around if he is comfortable with this level of flirting right under your nose.

Don’t ignore your emotional “discomfort” - you are minimising your real distress - you should be feeling disgusted and insulted and clear that you are moving on.

It’s the totality of all of the incidents that shows the pattern of who he is. And lockdown has shown you how much worse this really is. First opportunity he chooses getting drunk over you.

NoMoreDickheads · 21/04/2020 10:01

He's awful OP.

Verbal abuse is one thing, and probably worse, but how would you feel if he went out for a night knowing his eye wanders this much? Given the opportunity, he will act on it.

I think the abuse will spill over into sober life eventually. Doing it drunk is just testing the waters/pushing the boundaries.

forsucksfake · 21/04/2020 10:10

He is vile. Raise your standards. Change your taste in men.

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