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Found viagra in partners rucksack

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maybeinanotherlife06 · 05/01/2026 06:45

Hi Im sorry if this is long but I am in work now so away from partner with unfortunately more time to think. I just feel rubbish. Got with him over teo years ago . He was severely addicted to porn and wanking. For maybe a year he could never ever finish through sex but would by wanking after sex. This broke me. Im against porn . I hate the stuff and class it as cheating. He knew this and the one time he managed to finish the relief I felt was sad to be honest.
then I found out that he had put porn in his phone when we were having sex and hid it at an angle but just enough so he could see it . Im not lying when I say iv never ever felt so low, lost and ugly in my life . It still messes with my head to this day. He said it was because he didn’t feel like a man . So done it to finish. But if that was the case then why would he also watch it after everything I told him about it , how it made me feel and also as soon as I would leave his house for work or any reason what so ever ? It’s because he didn’t care how I felt .
we would be having sex for hours with no end . Then I found countless stashes of viagra in his works van . And also they were delivered to his house when I was there . Again this made me feel horrible about my self because at this point things were a lot better with him being able to finish. I told him how I felt about the Viagra and he basically laughed in my face and took two in front of me. I still feel unattractive and honestly traumatised by all this . If I ever bring it up not wanting to argue he flips out. I want to trust him thats all I have ever wanted to do . So I thought with me saying about the Viagra it would have stopped . This was a year and half ago and iv never found any since . I left just before Christmas because of his drug use , cocaine ect. Im highly against drugs . Don’t want it in my life . He doesn’t get it again flips out says there is nothing wrong with it and im controlling . He also says why does it affect me if he takes it . Again just makes me feel like I mean nothing.
when I did go back 8 days ago sex felt different. He couldn’t get fully hard and once again would struggle to finish . It’s hurt me because I think porn again but apart from mentioning to him sex feels different a few days ago iv not said anything else .
we went away this weekend and again same issue weather in touching it , oral or sex it’s never fully hard and will just go floppy after a few minutes. That happened in the night . I mentioned it . He kicked off the whole night until early hours of the morning . We did make up and tried sex and again couldnt get fully hard . I went down stairs and went to get my coat . His rucksack fell off the hanger and could came a tiny ball of foil . I opened it and found a half eaten tablet . Put it on Google image and it’s Viagra . So I ask him why is there a half eaten Viagra in his bag. He said he brought to take when we were away and he took it in the morning . We tried having sex in the morning and it wouldn’t get hard. So I know hes lying . I lied and said I found it the day we got there and it was still half eaten . He said maybe I took it the day before . So again I think he was lying .
at this point I started crying because I was thinking either hes been cheating on me or when he’s been taking coke when we argued hes been taking Viagra to get hard , watching porn and wanking for hours and it brings it all back to me.
i feel so worthless . He promised me hes never cheated or have used it like I said but I really don’t know what to believe .
we got home and I started touching him in bed just to see if things would be different but this time it didn’t go hard at all . Can anyone please help me with the way Im thinking ? Thankyou

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OvernightBloats · 05/01/2026 08:41

He sounds a prize wanker - dump him. Start the new year afresh.

RealEagle · 05/01/2026 09:18

I’ve read your posting history,my god you need to fuck him off and focus on yourself.

chickenlettuceunderbacon · 05/01/2026 09:44

I genuinely do not understand why you are with this man. He's the loser, not you. Leave now, your mental health and self-esteem will transform immediately.

MiddleAgedDread · 05/01/2026 09:48

Just taking viagra doesn't make a man hard, he still needs to be sexually aroused for it to work.
Aside from that, LTB.

Oldandgreyer · 05/01/2026 10:05

maybeinanotherlife06 · 05/01/2026 07:03

Thankyou all for your replies . I will get back to you when I have free time but can you tell me if how I feel is ok ? Have I got any right to feel the way I do ? Is it me and am I the problem ? Thankyou

You feel that way, so that's OK.

This is about you and what makes you happy. No one here can give you a moral compass. That's for you. You know where your boundaries are and you just have to assert them.
This man is a vile creature who doesn't respect you.

Lurkingandlearning · 05/01/2026 10:07

maybeinanotherlife06 · 05/01/2026 07:03

Thankyou all for your replies . I will get back to you when I have free time but can you tell me if how I feel is ok ? Have I got any right to feel the way I do ? Is it me and am I the problem ? Thankyou

You have the right to feel any feelings you feel

i think the question you should be asking yourself is why you are with someone who you are incompatible with.

Maybe you have low self esteem but staying with him will only make that worse

StealthMama · 05/01/2026 10:09

Of all the things in your l OP, the half eaten viagra from his backpack is the least of your worries.

This is not a relationship.

he is drug and pron addicted.

he needs professional help, and you need to leave.

theres no version of events where all of this is rewound and things are perfect.

BogusBargins · 05/01/2026 10:20

He’s done a job on you OP for sure. The way he has shouted you down to cover his appalling actions has you questioning reality which is actually abusive!

Long and short is though, who cares! It doesn’t matter if he was a great guy - the fact that he is unable to admit he has a plethora of issues is all you need. You don’t need any permission to leave, nor does it matter who is right and who is wrong - just leave!

maybeinanotherlife06 · 05/01/2026 10:20

Thankyou all for your comments i really appreciate evey single one of them . I feel like I’m going mad and im the horrible controlling one . Iv never felt this low about myself before . Never ever had to have drug conversations. Porn once or twice yes but once they knew how I felt about it that was that . Iv turned in to a paranoid mess and then I feel sorry for him having to put up with me . I left for work at 4-30 am and he hasn’t got work. He lost his job a few weeks before Christmas. So iv been doing my own head in feeling depressed all morning constant anxiety because of last night . I don’t know if I wrote it on here but we started kissing in bed normally when he kisses me we have sex , so I started touching it and again notning was happening at all . So I stopped . Then all Im thinking is now just like he done constantly before is him wanking as soon as I leave his house . Now this is the thing . Wanking has never ever been part of my mind set or worrying about it . But after going through what I have with him and wanking so much he could never finish , never stay hard and have to take Viagra to have sex with me then he would get off wank and within a minute finish the whole thing has massively affected me . Hes phoned me twice this morning . Last phone call he said what’s the matter I can tell your not alright . But I know if I mention any of this he will flip out and we won’t end up seeing each other for days then he will just drink , smoke weed and take coke and god knows what else and everytime i go back I just keep losing myself more and more . I can’t forgive him anymore . I used too . Iv been through saddness , anger now to nothing . Just hating myself . When I feel like this and mention it it always ends up in a huge argument . His side . Then I think he deserves better than me . He keeps saying that it’s just the way he’s grown up . All his friends have done and still do the same , even in work . He works in construction and everyone he works with (friends) do drugs with him . Iv never been around it or done it . Even if I was I wouldn’t do it . I hate drugs . Then he makes me feel more down when he says maybe you should watch porn Youl find something you like , or we should have a night taking coke together . It’s be fun you might like it . God I sound pathetic

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Weenurse · 05/01/2026 10:41

The likely reason he can’t get or keep an erection is his drug use. Coke c*ck is commonly known among drug users.
He is using Viagra to try to counter act the coke but it is obviously not working.
Making you feel shit about yourself takes the focus off his failures.
He is not a keeper, you can do better and deserve better.

Ilovelurchers · 05/01/2026 10:43

You need to leave this man as soon as you safely can, and have no more to do with him.

You then need to seek therapy as you sound very troubled and unhappy.

The only thing I DON'T agree with in your post, is that it's fair to object to a partner using Viagra if they feel they need it to help their sexual performance. I think that's the man's decision myself and not something I would berate him about (just as it's up to me if I use artificial lubrication in sex - that's not the man's choice, it's mine).

But the rest of it, the porn, the recreational drugs, the nastiness - he's a hideous hideous man!

GenerousGardener · 05/01/2026 10:44

Kindly OP. None of this is your fault. Grab some self respect and block him on everything. He’s a coke addicted porn user. You need some therapy to love yourself again. What you don’t need is this vile awful man in your life who you will never change. He has you suckered in so much he’s had you believing it’s all your fault. It isn’t, it’s his fault. He won’t change. Take charge of your life and start the New Year without him.

PashaMinaMio · 05/01/2026 10:53

Get out of there as soon as you can.
Start making plans today.
If there’s the slightest chance that events could lead to pregnancy, brace yourself for making even bigger decisions. Who the hell wants to bring up a kid fathered by such a waste of space?

Just lance this toxic boil and get out. Soon!

Bluddyellfire · 05/01/2026 10:54

I can't see anything in your posts @maybeinanotherlife06 that makes me think his issues are even slightly about you. Relationships should not be this difficult, as others have said, and this man has problems which he is trying to co-opt you in to, probably to create a codependent situation where you're basically enabling/ excusing each other's behaviour, so that it's no longer 'just him/ his behaviour' that is the issue.

I was in a situation with someone who 'loved' me where apparently every problem that cropped up actually WAS me so I know how difficult it is to get out from underneath someone's control. There wasn't the same issues as you describe, but plenty of industrial strength gaslighting (for example it was my fault he'd lied 3 times in a year about losing jobs because he didn't want to aggravate my 'anxieties' around money???). I agree with others who have suggested counselling or similar to reconnect with yourself and what's right for you. And leave him, obviously.

FeralWoman · 05/01/2026 11:01

I read a few of your other threads @maybeinanotherlife06. You need to leave him. End things, block him and never go back to him. You need counselling to work out why you think you deserve nothing better than an abusive addict as a partner, and to learn how to value yourself as an individual who doesn’t have to have a partner. You get the same responses on here each time. Pack your shit, return his house key, get your house key from him, and leave.

rainbowsparkle28 · 05/01/2026 11:03

Leave.

Bananalanacake · 05/01/2026 11:05

Thank god you don't live with him. Is there a risk of him wanting to move in with you? If he's lost his job won't he run out of money for booze and Coke. Don't let him, whatever you do.

NellieJean · 05/01/2026 11:05

A wanker in both senses of the word.

TomatoSandwiches · 05/01/2026 11:07

This man is all sorts of wrong and vile but why did you get with him in the first place?
Why have you taken him back? He won't change, just end it, no one is holding a gun against your head making you have a relationship with this creature so at some point op you are inflicting this man on yourself.... why?

Cookingupmyfirstbornson · 05/01/2026 11:17

Nothing will change until you change it. Leave.

usedtobeaylis · 05/01/2026 11:20

Leave him immediately. This is not about you, at all, in any way, shape or form. Its about him and you can't 'fix' him. He doesn't want to deal with this. Leave him to his porn. Move on, reclaim your dignity and get this utter shit (both him and his porn) out of your life. You do not need to live like this. Its absolutely no reflection on you, it's a social sickness.

AltitudeCheck · 05/01/2026 11:29

What happened to you to make you feel like this man is all you deserve?

I can't see even one tiny redeeming feature... an unemployed coke / porn obsessed man who brings nothing to the table and makes you feel shit about yourself. What does he have that you think you want/ need?

LittlePurpleTeapot · 05/01/2026 11:30

This man is so lost he will never be found.

Leave him OP. He will never give you what you deserve, need or want.
He will only bring you misery and destroy your self esteem.

LivingwithHopenowandforever · 05/01/2026 11:31

@maybeinanotherlife06

OP, you are losing yourself in this relationship. It is toxic pls LTB he is no good for you and you are on a downward spiral if you continue to stay in this awful relationship. He does not have a job & it won’t be long before he is asking you for money for his drug & porn habits. We only have 1 life OP pls don’t waste anymore of yours on him. Start 2026 getting rid of this dead weight.

maybeinanotherlife06 · 05/01/2026 11:34

i know this sounds stupid to everyone on here but I do love him and I always hope / think he will change . Even tho after he swears on his daughters life and promised me he wouldn’t do these things anymore he always ends up doing them then makes me feel crazy because he says he never promised me he woundnt and I have lied about it . But I promise I am not lying . I even had texts promising me which I sent him and he still said he never promised even tho it’s there . All written down . Hes started calling me controlling a lot lately . I think I am but then I think the only things I don’t want him doing is drugs and porn and to me they are not bad things to not want in a relationship.

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