When is enough?

I feel so lost. I love my boyfriend. He’s an amazing guy and we connect so well. Laugh and joke and have the same goals and all. But when he drinks he is a different person. My son is 5 months old and my bf about a halfway through my pregnancy started to drink a lot. He would drink about a bottle of rum every other night and the nights he didn’t have that he would drink a 6 pack of beer or a whole thing of wine. When he drinks he gets mean. He never physically done anything just verbally. He will put me down and make me feel useless and make everything my fault. He will threaten to leave and will refuse to say he loves me. He just makes me feel like scum. The next day he is always filled with sorrow and regret and tells me it won’t happen again and that he gonna work on himself. This all stopped when my son was like 3 months old cause I had enough and he made the effort to stop drinking. He went from then til this last week without any drinks. Now all sudden he’s back to drinking every other night and is back to the same old pattern of putting me down, making me cry and then him going to sleep. I feel broken cause I love him and I want it to work. I also don’t want to give my son a split home because I had that growing up and hated it. My son such a smiling and happy boy and literally smiles at everyone. He loves his daddy so much and gets beyond excited when he’s home. I wouldn’t want to take this life of 1 home family away from him and take him seeing his dad daily away. But at the same time my heart hurts. I feel broken and numb. I feel like when he drinks I need to take my son and leave apartment. I feel like I’ve failed my son. I just wanted a happy family where I could give my son everything I wanted but here I am crying and feeling like I’ve failed my son so much.
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I'm sorry you're going through this. He needs to stop drinking but I don't think he can do it alone cold turkey. He needs AA or counselling and it might kick him into gear if you leave for a week or so while he gets it together because it's not good for you and he's not gonna be a good role model for your son either who loves him so may want to be like him.

Your boyfriend is an alcoholic and he needs help. I am a recovering drug addict. More than likely the only thing that will make him have the strength to permanently stop would be to lose everything because of the drinking. He has to want it more than he wants anything else in the whole world. He has to want to stay sober more than he wants to drink. That is incredibly difficult to experience during active addiction. They tell you in NA you have to be willing to stand on your head in the corner if that's what it takes to stay clean. If you have somewhere you and your son can go I'd recommend separating from him for a while. Not just a few days or even a week I would say at least a month. If he's unwilling to get help then he's not going to be successful. Most addicts can't stop without ever getting any help at all. You could even offer to go with him to an AA meeting or NA meeting.

As bad as it is for a child to not have both parents it's even worse for your son to grow up seeing his father treat his mother that way. People think it's cruel to walk away from an addict when they're struggling with addiction, but very often it saves the life of the addict for them to lose everyone they love at least temporarily.

@Jessie sadly he won’t go to any of those. He’s extremely high ego and anytime I’ve brought up counseling he laughs and says only girls or weak men go to that and that he doesn’t have an issue :(

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