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Feeling rocked by something that happened this weekend.

274 replies

DaisyDooxox · 12/12/2022 08:15

I have been with my partner for 8 months. Things have been going well and there is so much chemistry. We have occasional arguments, and we are very different people, so took us some time to settle into a happy medium.

At the weekend we went to his work Christmas party. I didn’t know anyone and I suffer from anxiety so I got very drunk in order to cope better.

I made a friend (his workmates wife), at one point in the night we went into the toilet together. She had drugs and I stupidly took them. I’ve never taken anything in my life and feel disgusted with myself.

As soon as I came back to the dance floor, he then asked me if I had taken drugs. He clearly knew that they were into that. Part of me wishes he told me this before so that I could have avoided the situation better. He knows that I have a very important career and that this would have made me feel full of regret, but didn’t say anything. I know though that this is my responsibility. He then went to take some.

Towards the end of the night, it was his mates that were looking after me and carrying me up to the hotel room. His mates holding my hair as I was being sick. He just sat there and watched.

I understand that this is ultimately my problem and I feel deep with regret today. Part of me has the ick over him not looking after me better. And this is making me question a lot. But we woke up this morning, he made me a tea as usual and de iced my car like nothing has happened. But this seems like a really big, disgusting thing to me.

He has asked me to move in with him in the Spring when his flat mate moves out. I want to be sure that he is asking me to move in for genuine reasons, not just a means to pay the bills in the cost of living crisis.

Any perspectives would be really helpful. Thanks.

OP posts:
Carouselfish · 12/12/2022 10:17

By permission, I mean that he then new that you were not in a position to complain because you'd done it yourself.

Carouselfish · 12/12/2022 10:17

*Knew (arrrgh)

Hillary17 · 12/12/2022 10:18

You’re lucky he didn’t dump you the next morning.

JudgeJ · 12/12/2022 10:18

Toddlerteaplease · 12/12/2022 08:25

I'd have dumped you on the spot if I was him.

Yes, definitely an LTB situation, poor man! How many women carry their partner up to bed when he is off his head on drugs and alcohol? He may reconsider the wisdom of asking you to move in together!

KettrickenSmiled · 12/12/2022 10:20

He sounds like a good one in many ways

What did I miss?!!

OP has said almost NOTHING about him. He description of him includes the length of time they have been dating, that they already argue, & that there is chemistry. Seems a bit thin to me.

The only 2 good things she has mentioned is he made her a cup of tea The Morning After, & scraped her car windscreen free of ice. Big deal!

MulderSmoulder · 12/12/2022 10:20

Part of me has the ick over him not looking after me better.

Maybe he has the ‘ick’ after seeing you in such a state.

Neither of you behaved well in this situation, sounds like you’re trying to put the blame onto him for your decisions (getting drunk, taking drugs).

MeowwandAnder · 12/12/2022 10:21

I’m agreeing with you @Carouselfish

OP was in a pretty vulnerable situation, party where she didn’t know anyone - I think her DP should have been looking out for her. Just as I would with any friend I invited somewhere unfamiliar. He failed to warn her about his known druggie colleague.

The OP feels rocked. Don’t invalidate her feelings. Sounds like a lot of victim blaming here - it’s quite shocking.

baileys6904 · 12/12/2022 10:23

Ahhhh so you'd follow them around and even if they go for a wee? He didn't even know until it was too late. She could have been begging said colleague for a dabble. She could have promised said colleague the world. At some point an individual has the right to make decisions for themselves. She did. Trying to blame someone else for that is ridiculous.

BTW, when I was about 19, I went to a bfs party, didn't know anyone. Got stupid drunk to battle nerves, sang the rowing boat song in the middle of a dance floor by myself and then ran off and hid under a car in the car park when the bf tried to stop me doing the dance. I think proceeded to throw up throughout the night at his sisters house. It was in no way his fault, it was mine. I learnt from that night, massively.

MeowwandAnder · 12/12/2022 10:24

If you see someone floundering - you don’t abandon them and think - fuck them. Entirely their fault for getting drunk. Jesus!

KettrickenSmiled · 12/12/2022 10:24

Hillary17 · 12/12/2022 10:18

You’re lucky he didn’t dump you the next morning.

What for? Not having as high a tolerance level for booze & coke as he has?

BadNomad · 12/12/2022 10:24

Eh. What is she a victim of? No one made her get drunk and take drugs. This is how she decides to handle her anxiety. That isn't anyone else's fault.

Wishimaywishimight · 12/12/2022 10:25

You say you have "the ick". I imagine he probably does too.

WishingWell5 · 12/12/2022 10:25

Maybe you're right @KettrickenSmiled
I got the impression they were quite happy and settled, minus a few arguments and being different people.

I think the problem with drugs is (some) people really don't care about you, at all, when drugs are around. So he might be one of those people.

But then, we can't really tell either way from the post, who is right or wrong, or if both are in different ways ...

WandaWonder · 12/12/2022 10:26

MeowwandAnder · 12/12/2022 10:21

I’m agreeing with you @Carouselfish

OP was in a pretty vulnerable situation, party where she didn’t know anyone - I think her DP should have been looking out for her. Just as I would with any friend I invited somewhere unfamiliar. He failed to warn her about his known druggie colleague.

The OP feels rocked. Don’t invalidate her feelings. Sounds like a lot of victim blaming here - it’s quite shocking.

How the heck it doing something to yourself victim blaming? The world has gone mad

Pebbledashery · 12/12/2022 10:26

I would be mortified and ashamed if I were him. Grow up.

Needanewnamebeingwatched · 12/12/2022 10:27

He was probably sat there thinking who is this person I have asked to move in with me.

Gets so drunk at a works party, takes drugs and then is so sick his friends had to look after you.

Sounds like he has the ick

Luxurysleuth007 · 12/12/2022 10:27

Wow, I hope for his sake he sees the light and gets rid of you pronto OP. Saying this gently- you sound like a needy naive nightmare.

Loving all those tirelessly trying to cast the blame on him, equally as demented. 🤪

MeowwandAnder · 12/12/2022 10:29

Victim - in that she feels rocked, like she’s been wronged / or something isn’t right.

I think she’s right to have those feelings.

I wouldn’t let that happen to a friend if I took them to a works do where they didn’t know anyone. I’d be looking out for them.

I’d be particularly aware if they looked like they were in a vulnerable state. I think he abandoned her!

KettrickenSmiled · 12/12/2022 10:31

Wishimaywishimight · 12/12/2022 10:25

You say you have "the ick". I imagine he probably does too.

I don't. I agree with everything @Carouselfish said upthread.

He cheerfully made her tea & de-iced her car this morning. Seems like it's business as usual for him.
I suspect that he's pleased that his drug use is out in the open, so he now has carte blanche to use in OP's company.

Because isn't it odd how OP had no clue whatsoever that he's au fait with drug-taking, until his friends introduce her to the drug, at a party, in a toilet ... & the FIRST THING her b/f asks when she emerges from said toilet is "did you do drugs?", then immediately start taking them himself.

Come on, this is a basic grooming/pushing routine. Did PP's not watch Grange Hill back in the 80's? 😂 😎

MeowwandAnder · 12/12/2022 10:34

@KettrickenSmiled

Agree 100%. And I think the fact that OP can sense something isn’t right should not be ridiculed.

icelollycraving · 12/12/2022 10:34

So he makes you feel free? Work dos aren’t really the place imho for getting v pissed/ taking drugs and being so out of it that other adults need to carry you. I’d have been humiliated and angry that you felt this appropriate behaviour. He watched whilst his friends held your hair whilst you vomited? Maybe he has the ick.
This is all on you.

bibbiddybobbidyboo · 12/12/2022 10:35

The responses on here are typical MN.

Everyone has had their moment where they've drunk too much. If you haven't, well done you, you get to wear the smug crown.

Yes you probably shouldn't have drunk so much, but sometimes when people have anxiety and don't know anybody they get carried with drinking instead. Unfortunately you probably have embarrassed him in front of his colleagues. I would be grovelling today if I was you. However, he should have also checked that you were ok and not have left you with his poor colleagues to look after.

AreOttersJustWetCats · 12/12/2022 10:37

Wolfiefan · 12/12/2022 08:18

You chose to get drunk. You chose to take drugs. It’s not on him.

100% this. You're a grown adult who made bad decisions.

BadNomad · 12/12/2022 10:37

Nothing in the OP indicates she cares about him taking drugs or is against drug taking. Her issue is that he didn't stop her taking them or look after her after she got wasted. Her priorities are messed up here.

SecondClassmyass · 12/12/2022 10:38

If anything, he is a keeper. He’s made you cups of tea and de-iced your car after THAT PERFORMANCE.

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