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Runningdawg

(4,632 posts)
5. You are not alone.
Sat Dec 23, 2023, 08:24 PM
Dec 2023

The family dinner is scheduled for tomorrow evening at 7. Problem is, my husband is usually blacked out by 5. And if he manages not to drink before then, the DTs start. We did this 2 years ago and 5 min inside the door everyone was pulling me into the hallway asking WTF?
The ride home was even more fun. He thought I was his uber driver and proceeded to describe to me in great detail what he would like to do to his brother's wife. That ride ended with him believing he was being kidnapped and attacking me as I was driving. He did 2K worth of damage to the car before I could get him out.
He's passed out in the living room now, after breaking ANOTHER phone.
His family knows obviously, but although they live less than 3 miles away, we hear from them once a year. His mother knows what I'm going through, he apparently got the gene from her father. She and I used to hang out, no more. No one has been in our house for 3 years.
I just want to make it to Tuesday, when he is supposed to go back to work. Then I get a 3 day breather before another 4 day binge.

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