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Alcoholic Husband

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princessjonsie1967 · 25/08/2022 16:26

My husband has always liked a drink but in the last year he has gone from liking a drink to a bottle of jack Daniels a day . He has a good job and he can afford the habit but it makes him nasty and angry and dangerous . he always drinks at home and has been placing the bottles in the recycling at night so the neighbours don't know . he overheard my neighbour saying someone was an alcoholic and assumes it him . He is paranoid . He will start an argument with me on the drop of a hat . He is forgetful and I'm worried . We had made arrangements to meet his sister and family for a family weekend . Women being women we make the arrangements. She messaged and said it would only be her and the girls as her husband and boys had other things on . This resulted in him being paranoid that it was something else , he started ranting and raving about it and said he was cancelling. I said ok if you want to . I was thinking I was doing the right thing and not provoking an argument . he said he was going to wait until the last second to cancel but I said no as she was bring two children a long way for this . He then got it into his head that I had somehow sabotaged the weekend and it was my fault . I let him fall asleep but when he woke he acted as nothing had happened and he was going to the weekend. I felt awful as I hadn't slept a wink . I finally plucked up the courage to confront him and said it has to stop and it me and the drink . He has chosen the drink . I'm so sad that 18 years has come to this . Any advise on what to do next ? I'm done with it so staying and trying is not an option but I do still love him

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princessjonsie1967 · 23/11/2022 09:59

thank you I will look it up. He gave up for 26 days then we went away for the weekend and his uncle had left him a half bottle of JD in the mobile home. He drank that the first night. He then didn't drink the next night but did on the third night as he was stressed due to the long journey (it was 2 hours and I drove) . He then started again and haven't stopped since. I'm still here but I feel so disengaged from him that people around me are noticing but he hasn't noticed yet. My friend was here and liked my new sofa I had bought off my boss and then all of a sudden said hang on are you furnishing a house so when you leave you have everything? Thats exactly what om doing. In a three-bed house we own three things together. everything is mine. As long as he doesn't bother me and leaves me alone then i will continue to stay and pay off my debts and squirrel monies away so when I go, I can leave in a good position. I'm hoping for a considerable bonus from work that's due as if not it's going to take me 4 years. I'm just enjoying life and getting out and doing loads of nice things with friends and family and he is happy as it means while I'm
out he can drink and be with the true love of his life

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GrosvenorSq · 23/11/2022 11:31

The most important thing that you have done is emotionally detach.

That allows you space to think and plan and more energy to divert elsewhere ie on your own self care and future rather than dissipating it all on reacting or trying to control / manage / negotiate his drinking which is futile.

Are you getting any professional or emotional support elsewhere to help you come to terms with what you have endured and what you need to get through?

AttilaTheMeerkat · 23/11/2022 11:45

re your comment:

"My friend was here and liked my new sofa I had bought off my boss and then all of a sudden said hang on are you furnishing a house so when you leave you have everything? Thats exactly what om doing. In a three-bed house we own three things together. everything is mine. As long as he doesn't bother me and leaves me alone then i will continue to stay and pay off my debts and squirrel monies away so when I go, I can leave in a good position. I'm hoping for a considerable bonus from work that's due as if not it's going to take me 4 years".

I would also consider seeking legal advice on the above point if you have not already done this. Was the debt you mention accrued pre marriage or after it?. Do you really want to take all this stuff with you when/if you leave him?

I think another potential 4 years of this from him will destroy you from the inside out. By being with him at all you're continuing to enable him and that helps no-one here, least of all you. All enabling gives you is a false sense of control.

GrosvenorSq · 23/11/2022 12:02

That’s a good point by @AttilaTheMeerkat because if you are married are not all possessions joint?

Including the sofa, the debt and the bonus?

Invest in some good legal advice so you know exactly where you stand - but always prioritise your own emotional well-being.

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