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Old May 25, 2010, 12:14 AM
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Well I talked with him today. It didn't go well at all. He tried using the same stupid explanation/justification he tried like six weeks ago when I tried to talk to him before. Once the summer starts he'll be working at the pool and his regular job so he won't have time to drink. I said bull. And then I said what about after the summer? I can't be with someone that drinks all the time. He was laughing it off. He was trying to blow the conversation off because he needed to "get a good seat at the bar for the Flyers game." That's about when I started getting angry. I told him the conversation we were having was more important than some stupid game. I asked him if he would be willing to try to get his drinking in check. I knew if I said to stop drinking all together I wouldn't have a snowballs chance in heck so I said for him to stay sober more days out of the week than he drinks. He said he was willing to try but only after the Flyers won or lost if they got to the Stanley Cup.... So he'd be willing to try in about three weeks.... I said that wasn't good enough. He was still trying to laugh it off. He shut up real quick when I pointed out how often he's not sober and how much he spends a week at the bar. But really in the end it meant nothing. He's not even willing to cut back on his drinking to three days a week. I said my piece to him. He made it clear that alcohol is his #1. So I left. My thought process in saying for him to limit his drinking to three days a week was to prove a point to him (without telling him). When he realized he couldn't limit or control or however you want to put it, his alcohol consumption then maybe he would have realized he has a problem and maybe just maybe he would not try to dismiss me when I tried to talk to him. I dunno. Either way we're done. I cannot and will not be an enabler. And if I stayed with him that would be the roll I'd have to play. Maybe something will click and he'll realized how asinine it is that he'd rather loose a relationship over alcohol rather than try and reign it in.

Thanks everyone for your input and support!!! I really, really, really appreciate it!!!!
Thanks for this!
Julial, susan888