I posted on this thread a couple of weeks ago re my partners drinking and lying. He left last week and is now making a big show of how he has stopped drinking and is in a better place. The implication being that he was drinking due to being with me. I don’t buy it and I give it four weeks before he starts slipping back into it. Do people drink because of being in unhappy relationships/predicaments? I am now questioning whether I am to blame as that is how he is framing it. I am so exhausted after years of lies – my experience of this is that any attempts to not drink last no more than six months before the cycle of lying and hiding starts again Sorry to hijack your thread. Trust your gut. I am in the most pain at the moment but not having him physically in the house is a huge relief.
