'When it comes to joint invitations, we agree to come home separately'

It’s 2am. I’m dozing when I hear a car engine fire up, followed by a terrible crunch and a tinkling of glass – then deathly silence. I instantly know what’s happened and feel a surge of rage. That evening, we’d had friends around for our annual end-of-year get-together. We hold it in our big front garden so neighbours can drop in, too. I’d gone to bed after the last guests had drifted home and left my partner outside drinking with a friend.

More than once he’s had too much to drink in front of my parents. We’ll be invited around to their place for a meal and, although he doesn’t roll around drunk, he’ll get tipsy enough to start slurring. Now, I like to let my hair down and have a good time as much as anyone, but on the right occasion. When it’s just a low-key dinner with family, it’s embarrassing and plain rude. It’s the same thing with school events: not the place or the time for that kind of behaviour.

One of them, who has a young child who gets up with the lark, grew so tired of wrangling over departure times with her husband, then having to haul him away, that one night she snapped. They were having dinner with a couple they’d known for years and, after trying to hint that they should make a move to go home, she lost her patience and left him to it.

Comment: how come it’s always the man who is the bad guy with the ABC?

It may be the answer for the writer but he becomes the problem of the people that you have left him with

British tabloid trash.... Thankyou for your ongoing quality journalism Fairfax

more fool you if you put up with that shit

Send your partner alone and spend the night at home watching movies with twisties, cadbury chocolate and musk lollies. Win win 😎

If I had a partner that was constantly drunk, I'd leave.

My partner likes to socialise and I’m a bore! 😂🥳👌

And there are not women who are like this Women not the ethical and mature figures of marriage and families. There are just as many immature wives as husbands. Your peer reviewed research please, not this anecdotal stuff!!

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