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Have you given your OH another chance and they've been so bitter since?

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somanynamechangestoremember · 11/12/2020 10:04

Ok so I'm it's only been a few days but he's doing my head in
Dh got brought home by the police for being drunk on Friday night. He hadn't been abusive hence why they hadn't arrested him . I think they took pity on him. Part of me wishes they had arrested him.

It's the last but worst of a long list of drink related incidents (this is a 35yo man with kids and a very responsible job)
I kicked him out and he was oh so sorry and said he would do anything to come home . He rang alcohol support and had a few phone chats and a zoom meeting. He has gone t total and says he will stay that way . He's never been someone who can't go a day without a drink but he will use any opportunity to get absolutely sozzled
I told him on Tuesday he has one more chance to not do this kind of thing again and I mean it
Since he came back he's been like a scolded child. Snapping at me all the time . Saying he feels like a child on the naughty step. Saying all weekends and Xmas are ruined now he can't have a drink . Asks me to tell him how to fill his time now that he's not drinking . Asking if he'll me made to feel guilty forever . Everything's shit so on and so on (for the record I never said he couldn't have a drink I said I don't want anymore ridiculous incidents like that . It was his choice to stop all together)
I took our house off the market as I think it's sensible we don't commit ourselves to a bigger mortgage etc at the moment . He's very very hurt about this . Says I'm just looking out for myself and planning on fcking him over . He's so angry . Says he wants £50k if we split even though there is only £30k equity in the house . Constantly bringing up anything I've ever done wrong in the past
Regretting letting him back now tbh.

OP posts:
LilyLongJohn · 11/12/2020 11:56

If I was feeling charitable I'd tell him, next time he says xmas is ruined because he can't drink - 'feel free to have a drink dh, it's your choice not to drink, but if you do decide to drink then you can do it elsewhere and take a bag with you, because you won't be coming home'

Whereas in Reality I'd tell him to leave now, sounds like he's either pissed up, or pissed at life and using you as his emotional punch bag, either one is unacceptable.

wimhoffbreather · 11/12/2020 12:02

Stop turning this around on yourself or thinking you’ve ‘missed your chance’ to throw him out.

He can be thrown out at any time! Say to him “you are clearly very unhappy and I don’t know how to help you, you need to stay elsewhere”

You don’t have to put up with this you know

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