I was pretty sure she was drinking from the snotty way she was talking to me and telling me the things I ‘needed’ to do the next day. I didn’t argue with her, but frankly, I have my own priority list of things to do and her stuff probably won’t come up. Oh well….
Her mother had a little party here and didn’t think to let me know that maybe I’d need to do something else for dinner. My first inkling was when I heard a bunch of old hens cackling upstairs overhead (they were hitting the vino pretty hard) and when I went up to see what was going on there was just this sea of grey hair. I ordered out Chinese. No big deal, but I would have appreciated a word of warning. My wife was definitely hammered by the time I got back. She was being really snotty to the kids. My wife went up to take a shower and went out and found her bottle and dumped a third of a pint down the drain. She had already dumped the rest down her throat. I pocketed her keys, just in case she noticed the booze was gone and wanted to go get more.
I took the kids upstairs shortly after dinner (we ate fairly late.) I read to the kids for a while and when I got down, I went to bed. I got woken up in the middle of the night. She was freaking out from bad dreams and had woken me up, partly just to see if I was still there. Great. I can be woken up in the middle of the night to be there for her, but she can’t be there for me from night to night and instead becomes drunken angry psycho bitch.
A bad thing about this night was that my daughter had a female thing and it should have been a mother-daughter moment. Instead, my wife was drunk and my daughter wasn’t going to talk to her about it when she was like that, so I had to stand in. I was okay with it, but when I told my wife about it in the middle of the night, (it came up, sort of naturally in our conversation after she woke me up) she declared that I was officially the kids’ mother, too. Like I haven’t been father and mother for the last seven years. And it wasn’t me that made her stop at the booze store and suck down a pint of vodka and turn into psycho drunk bitch instead of being there when her daughter needed her. My wife doesn’t stay sober for those kid things that are scheduled to come up, how can she be counted on to be sober for the things that come up without being scheduled?
