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Could really use some support just found out my man has been using cocaine again after finding out after I had baby he’d been doing it every week since before they was born going to aa and quitting to finding out he’s sneaking around at the pub and lying to me daily and now I’ve found cocaine in his wallet and a grinder in his work bag. Also he’s paid for something called vshotpro but I’m not sure what it is but I’ve checked his phone and seen his bank account which is how I figured out he would have drugs on him and also that he’s been lying that his with his sick grandad and actually down the pub while me and his child are home alone. Usually I would go nuts at this point but I’m so worn down that I don’t have it in me to bother but I feel so close to breaking down we already went through this and broke up a couple of months ago our baby is only a few months old this is insane.

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I know its not the same but my husband was an alcoholic. In about 6 months time we went from almost divorcing to him getting sober and us consciously deciding to have a baby. He's now 2.5 years sober and we have an amazing son. He got sober before a baby was in the picture but if you want someone to talk to, I'm here!

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I thought he was sober when we started trying for a baby but then he started going out and coming home drunk and smelling of weed and lying about it but I was very sick and pregnant already. Then it stopped and I thought he was clean then I found cocaine in his wallet the day I brought my baby home from hospital. Again he stopped he joined aa he stopped drinking he swore it was pat him. Today I checked his phone and found he’s been down the pub everyday for week lying to me he’s in traffic or finished work late or with his sick grandad when really he’s down the pub so I go and check his work bag and there’s clear evidence of drug usage for weed and cocaine and I’m at a loss completely now he really had me fooled all these days all these months I’ve been at home in his town with his family away from mine away from my friends taking care of our child completely alone and he’s been doing this and lying over and over again I promised if I caught him again I would leave I stayed the

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time and now I don’t know what I can do

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Oh bless you. If I were you I’d either be kicking him out or moving out. Preferably the former because you and the little one deserve the house. Obviously how you do it logistically depends on your set up bills-wise, but this situation isn’t safe for the little one. You have to think of them first. He’s been proven to lie and not to value family in multiple ways.

It’s easy to say and hard to do, but I would be out of that relationship like a flash and take evidence of what he’s done photography wise incase you need it for custody. It’s obvious you should have full custody.

The little one is so young they won’t remember this, I was 6m when my folks split, but an unhappy home is not a good place for a kiddo. Far better an awesome single mum or a new dad (that was my case) at some point.
Cut him loose.
Even just financially spending that much money with a young baby is crackers!
I feel like I keep accidentally making cocaine puns here- sorry.

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You can get support with every other part of life, but it’s like an infection, for the baby’s sake you’ve got to cut out the bad to save and heal the good.

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You have to be really brave whichever decision you make. But one way or another the drugs have to be out of the relationship.

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Partner works incredibly long hours, how much do they help out?

I'm struggling. Have been for a while. I've had one break from parenting my daughter, that was for 3 hours in December when I left her with her dad.

She's 14 months old and I'm just tired. I've done every night by myself. He's out of bed at 4am and doesn't get home until 7-9pm. He drives for work, very physically tiring.
On the weekends he was doing 6 days, one weekend day off, but now has both off.

He doesn't sit on the floor and play with her, he doesn't read to her because he says she doesn't have the patience.
He will pick her up and hold her whilst he's cooking.

Recently I've been "snappy" with him.
He got back from the mechanic last weekend, she was getting onto the sofa and he put his headphones on and started to watch Netflix on his phone.
The same day I told him I was going to run her bath and to watch her whilst she was still eating, he fell asleep on the sofa.

Today he went to football after going shopping, so was out 1-3 and then from 4-8.
He got back and I was snappy.

"I don't get why you're so snappy with me"

I said - Probably because I haven't had a break since December.

"Do you think I don't know you haven't had a break. I haven't had a break", "I just won't go to work, I'll sit at home all day".

Then "do you think I like not having a connection to my child"... But that's on him? He never sits to play with her. He "doesn't see the point". He's stated that this age is boring to him.

Since she's been born, he has been to a friend's once a month. Football - He stopped going for 7months, but has been the last two weekends.

Are these not breaks?

He does do the washing/washing up/cooking/vacuuming when I haven't had a chance to; but I'm the one in charge of feeding her, naps/bedtime, teeth brushing, hair brushing, baths, dressing her, making sure she has the right shoes, appointments etc. Everything falls on me.

If your partner works ridiculously long hours, how much do they look after your child? Do you ever get a break?

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