Husband made such an embarrassment of himself last night!

Old 05-25-2017, 09:09 AM
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Husband made such an embarrassment of himself last night!

I haven't posted here for over 4 years. My husband did go to in-house rehab back in April of 2015 for 2 weeks. Mostly because he was so unhappy with his job and he was drinking a lot. He came out of rehab feeling good about himself and not drinking for about a month. Saying that we'd start hanging out with the AA people at these sober picnics and be around others who don't drink. Well that never happened. Then he would have a beer or two on the weekend and say "It's just a beer. I'm fine". Within a few months he was right back to where he was before-drinking every day, but he thought it was okay because he had quit his job and found another one he liked so he was happier.

Well he can still go through a bottle of whiskey in 3-4 days, a 6 pack of beer lasts him 2-3 days. Last night was a night where I haven't seen him that bad until right before he went into rehab. He was a total embarrassment last night. He worked Sunday so now their policy is, because it's been pretty slow, that if you work Sunday then you can take a day off during the week. Well he took yesterday off. I get home at 5PM and I can tell he's already well on his way to being drunk. Slurring his words a bit, being really loud. He even told me "Just to warn you, I've had a bit to drink. I didn't start until about 3PM though." So in 2 hours you are already sounding like this?? Well about 7PM I was out on the porch looking across the street where they are building new houses. H comes out and then shortly thereafter taps me on the should and says "Look". He was pointing across the street and I couldn't see anything. Well there's a port-a-potty across the street for the workers to use while they are building the houses. He says "Someone just went in there. They had on a striped shirt and blond hair". I tell him that I didn't see anyone (I was kind of behind a post and had to move over when he was pointing) but still never heard a door open or close. Here's where it gets super embarrassing. He has his robe, sweats and slippers on and goes running across the street and stands in front of the port-a-potty. I wanted to crawl in a hole and was hoping the neighbors didn't see any of this. A car drove by and he waved at it. He stood there for a couple of minutes and I finally went inside. About a minute later (because I wasn't there to witness any of it) he comes stomping into the house and goes "Where did you go. I was going to knock on the door and ask them if they were done yet, but you weren't there to see it." What are you, 16?? He is going to turn 50 next year. I then go back and sit on the porch and watch the port-a-potty for almost 15 minutes and I say to him "Nobody has come out of there. I don't think there's anyone in there". He goes "I'm not that drunk that I'm seeing people who aren't there. I could hear them rattling around in there." He runs back over and opens the door and there's nobody there. Well obviously you are that drunk because nobody is there! Then he's making tacos and he asks what I want with it and I say beans and rice. He gets out the beans and rice and starts cooking them, goes back to his computer to sit and play and I come in the room and he goes "What do you want with the tacos"? Ummm...beans and rice, like the ones you just got out and started cooking 5 minutes ago". He goes "Oh yeah that's right". You can't tell me he wasn't super drunk to say that. I couldn't wait for the night to end.
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Yep. It got to the point where I didn't want to go to public or private gatherings or anywhere in public venues because I got tired of the embarrassing moments.

For mine, she went "sober" for 2 years. Then it became, Oh its just wine. I can manage wine better........until she couldn't.

Don't miss that life at all.

I suspect she was never really sober, she just did a better job at hiding it. Don't know, don't care.
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Old 05-25-2017, 09:34 AM
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And the thing is, he thinks he's being absolutely hilarious and if I tell him to stop it he'll say "I'm just having fun jeez! It's my day off". Yet if I had done that you know he would have told me what an ass I was making of myself. There have been other times when we'd get home after a night out and rather than wait 10 seconds to get into the house to go to the bathroom, he'd just whip it out in the driveway saying it's dark and nobody can see him. He has also peed in our backyard in the middle of the day rather than go inside.
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Old 05-25-2017, 09:47 AM
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early on in recovery i was told that an alcoholic stops growing mentally and emotionally when they take their first drink. i found it true for me. although 36 when i got sober, i was 13 ish mentally and emotionally.


so, onto soltuions for ya.....what are you going to do?
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Mapper, I know people can do a lot of strange things when drinking, but do you think there might be some reason to believe he might be also suffering from some kind of early stage dementia? Based on your last post I thought it might be worth mentioning. So sorry you're having to go through this. :-(
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Old 05-25-2017, 09:59 AM
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early on in recovery i was told that an alcoholic stops growing mentally and emotionally when they take their first drink. i found it true for me. although 36 when i got sober, i was 13 ish mentally and emotionally.


so, onto soltuions for ya.....what are you going to do?
Well he's never going to change. He's been drinking all his life to excess. He can't just have ONE drink. He likes his video games and he has to have a drink near him while playing. We never go and do anything because he has no motivation. He says over and over again that he wants to lose the gut he's gained over the past couple years, but still stops at fast food restaurants every day and consumes so much beer. I asked him to go for a walk with me a few nights ago and he goes "Nah, that's too much work". I tell him I want to show him the new trail they made along the wetland so he finally agrees. We turn down the path and he says "Oh that's nice" and then I start walking towards it and he goes "Well I don't want to walk down there". He just wanted to go home. Well if taking a slow walk around the neighborhood is too taxing for him, how does he think he's going to lose any weight??!! He never wants to do anything unless it involves a bar.
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Mapper, I know people can do a lot of strange things when drinking, but do you think there might be some reason to believe he might be also suffering from some kind of early stage dementia? Based on your last post I thought it might be worth mentioning. So sorry you're having to go through this. :-(
He's always been forgetful. It's just his nature. He's always so focuses on video games or tv or guitar or motorcycles that he says something and then forgets it later. But i mean that's like 24 hours later, last night it was 5 minutes later.
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Old 05-25-2017, 10:11 AM
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Well he's never going to change. He's been drinking all his life to excess. He can't just have ONE drink. He likes his video games and he has to have a drink near him while playing. We never go and do anything because he has no motivation. He says over and over again that he wants to lose the gut he's gained over the past couple years, but still stops at fast food restaurants every day and consumes so much beer. I asked him to go for a walk with me a few nights ago and he goes "Nah, that's too much work". I tell him I want to show him the new trail they made along the wetland so he finally agrees. We turn down the path and he says "Oh that's nice" and then I start walking towards it and he goes "Well I don't want to walk down there". He just wanted to go home. Well if taking a slow walk around the neighborhood is too taxing for him, how does he think he's going to lose any weight??!! He never wants to do anything unless it involves a bar.
What about you? How do you want to live your one precious life?
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Old 05-25-2017, 10:15 AM
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Well he's never going to change. He's been drinking all his life to excess. He can't just have ONE drink. He likes his video games and he has to have a drink near him while playing. We never go and do anything because he has no motivation. He says over and over again that he wants to lose the gut he's gained over the past couple years, but still stops at fast food restaurants every day and consumes so much beer. I asked him to go for a walk with me a few nights ago and he goes "Nah, that's too much work". I tell him I want to show him the new trail they made along the wetland so he finally agrees. We turn down the path and he says "Oh that's nice" and then I start walking towards it and he goes "Well I don't want to walk down there". He just wanted to go home. Well if taking a slow walk around the neighborhood is too taxing for him, how does he think he's going to lose any weight??!! He never wants to do anything unless it involves a bar.
actually, i was asking about what are you going to do for you.
not what you were going to do to try and get him to change.

what do YOU want out of life?
where do YOU want to be in a year?
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actually, i was asking about what are you going to do for you.
not what you were going to do to try and get him to change.

what do YOU want out of life?
where do YOU want to be in a year?
I'd love to have all the projects he talks about actually done around the house. New bedroom set, fix the pond, build the shed out back, hardwood floors, vacation to Europe. But none of it will happen. We don't have the money and he'll try and do it himself which will end up with something that will break or fall apart (like the firepit and new door that he swore he could do and the firepit is crumbling and the door won't close all the way). Any money we do manage to have goes towards bills and all his debt that he's accumulated.
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so what if all your plans and wants did not hinge on an unreliable, disappointing, embarrassing alcoholic?

you don't HAVE to live like this.............
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Old 05-25-2017, 10:35 AM
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so what if all your plans and wants did not hinge on an unreliable, disappointing, embarrassing alcoholic?

you don't HAVE to live like this.............
Well my bank account wouldn't have been drained by paying all his bills and having to pay for pretty much the entirety of our shared bills. I'd have a lot more money and I'd probably hire people to do all this stuff!
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and so..................?
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Yep, that is who he is. Sounds like you're pretty clear on that. Will you continue to focus on him and his numerous shortcomings, or will you begin to think about how to get the life you really want? One where you take responsibility for yourself and don't depend on someone who's shown you a zillion times that he can't be depended on?

You joined here what, 4 years ago? Are things any better? Might it be time to get on w/your own life?
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Well he took yesterday off. I get home at 5PM and I can tell he's already well on his way to being drunk. Slurring his words a bit, being really loud. He even told me "Just to warn you, I've had a bit to drink. I didn't start until about 3PM though." So in 2 hours you are already sounding like this??
Then he's making tacos and he asks what I want with it and I say beans and rice. He gets out the beans and rice and starts cooking them, goes back to his computer to sit and play and I come in the room and he goes "What do you want with the tacos"? Ummm...beans and rice, like the ones you just got out and started cooking 5 minutes ago". He goes "Oh yeah that's right". You can't tell me he wasn't super drunk to say that. I couldn't wait for the night to end.
I swear you have been in my house. STBXAH is constantly forgetting things within minutes of discussing them. He also loses all sense of timing when he cooks which makes me very nervous, not to mention requiring me to either eat overcooked food or take over the responsibility.
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What kinds of things do you like to do without your alcoholic husband? Is there anything that brings you happiness? Dreams? Bucket list, large or small?

Staring at a porta-potty for fifteen minutes to see if anyone comes out of it because your alcoholic husband swears he saw someone go in doesn't strike me as a great way to spend your time. What would you rather be doing?
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What kinds of things do you like to do without your alcoholic husband? Is there anything that brings you happiness? Dreams? Bucket list, large or small?

Staring at a porta-potty for fifteen minutes to see if anyone comes out of it because your alcoholic husband swears he saw someone go in doesn't strike me as a great way to spend your time. What would you rather be doing?
I used to work out and get out and do things before I moved out here to be with him 8 years ago now. I was on a volleyball league with my friends, went for a lot of walks and bike rides, kept my house spotless. Now I don't play volleyball, I don't have a bike anymore so no bike rides. I go for walks, but usually when he's not around because then I get some kind of sarcastic "Oh that sounds thrilling" or "Wow you must be bored". I am always cleaning the house now because of 4 cats and him and it's never really "clean". I've gained about 25 lbs since I've been out here because I just never do anything. I just started volunteering at an animal sanctuary last weekend and will probably go every other weekend because it's kind of a haul to get there, but even already he's being smarmy with me saying "If you aren't cleaning then you are watching tv or volunteering". Like volunteering is a bad thing now when he was all on board a few weeks ago. Well I go out and do anything on my own I get the sarcastic "Oh fine go out and just leave me here doing my own thing. No go have fun and don't think about me". But when I do ask him to do something he goes "Oh that sounds like a lot of work. I just want to sit here and play my video game and take a nap."

It's like I'm almost afraid to do anything because he's going to knock it or ask why he can't come. He keeps saying I need to get a hobby but he makes fun of everything I do, what I read, what I watch, the music I listen to. I should read sci-fi like him instead of mysteries, listen to punk rock like him instead of country and pop, watch sci fi and action movies like him instead of dramas and indies.
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ok, so besides HIS snarky comments (him being the guy in the bathrobe on self-appointed porta-potty security detail) and his lack of interest in doing stuff, what is stopping you?

i agree, that you found it necessary to stare at a porta-potty for FIFTEEN minutes to be sure your drunk off his @ss husband didn't really see someone go in (and by the way......WHO CARES who used it???) says a lot about what you have allowed your one precious life to become.
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ok, so besides HIS snarky comments (him being the guy in the bathrobe on self-appointed porta-potty security detail) and his lack of interest in doing stuff, what is stopping you?

i agree, that you found it necessary to stare at a porta-potty for FIFTEEN minutes to be sure your drunk off his @ss husband didn't really see someone go in (and by the way......WHO CARES who used it???) says a lot about what you have allowed your one precious life to become.
What stops me is the way he can make me feel with one small snarky comment. If he can't be happy for me doing something and makes me feel bad for wanting to go out, I won't go out because all I will think about is the attitude I will get from him upon my return and it will ruin my who outing.
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"No go have fun and don't think about me."

Take him at his word.

Being trapped at home being the Drunk King's handmaiden sounds like it makes you miserable. So at least go out, do what makes you happy, and ignore the whining best you can when you get home.

He's made his choices. But you can still make yours, yes?
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