Hi, my name is NoSmartieskirt!
but you can call me smartie. I have been with my boyfriend for 2,5 years now. We moved in together two months ago and one month into living together I realized, that something wasn’t right. He turned out to be an alcoholic.
thinking about what this means is making me sick. here I was: thinking I had finally found him. I remember talking to my friend, saying how happy I was and that I could barely understand how I deserved such happiness. that I wanted to marry him, have a family with him and couldn't wait for it all to happen.
like in a bad movie the next day everything turned to shit.
I came home from work to find him drunk, staggering around, having trouble pronouncing words and speaking very carefully. When asked how much he had to drink he said “One beer”. And I tried to believe him. While making dinner, every now and then he would creep off into the bedroom. I didn't really think anything of it, but in the back of my head it already bothered me. After dinner he asked whether he could have this evening to himself. Again, I didn’t think too much of it and left. When I came back he was sleeping on the couch, a water bottle in his hands. No cap on - so I went to get it and when I smelled it, I realized that it was liquor of some sort. I started rummaging through his stuff and in his backpack I found an empty bottle of grappa; a clear Italian schnaps that is used by alcoholics, because its smell is hard to detect on your breath, much like vodka. With which I had found him merely two weeks ago when he had fallen asleep drunk on our toilet.
his reaction, when I asked him to stop drinking alcohol for an extended period of time was: “I need a beer!”
the implications of all of this keep dawning on me and it is making me so sad. I know I’m whining. But today I’m not strong. today I mourn the relationship and the live this could have been. today I wallow in the disappointment and in the helplessness this has brought me; as well as the self- hatred that comes with “I should have known earlier!”, “Why didn’t I see the signs?” and “How am I supposed to get out of this?”.