This is true, I am sorry to hear this, my partner is the same age and has also been doing this for a very long time. I don’t think he has stolen yet but he has spent an awful lot of money on his addiction and sees no problem with it.
We had a long conversation the other day he asked for me to stop doing two things as this is meant to be the reason why he does it, even though he was taking drugs long before I came on the scene. I asked for one in return, that he does some research on addiction and makes up his own mind on it. It lasted hours as he decided last night to go straight from work in to town sending me a message saying it won’t be one of those nights that you worry about me and then rolled in at 8am this morning, I have been so worried. He has never been this late. I kept my calm with him even though it appeared he wanted to start an argument. I told him I was done and I can’t live like this anymore, he changed his tune and said he will try he just hasn’t dealt with the pregnancy well. Then I got verbal abuse because he was going to be late for work and I needed a minute to help him look for his keys and then had more abuse thrown because I didn’t know where his sun glasses were. I can’t cope anymore