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Posted: January 2, 2018, 1:59 PM
Hi All,
First time poster here. I am hoping someone can help me. I have had concerns about my partners's drinking for quite some time. For some background, he is a 33 y/o male. At this point, I would call him more of a binge drinking than anything else. But absolutely has alcoholic tendencies. He does not drink every day, but when he does, it is rare for him to NOT go overboard. I definitely feel that I am a good influence on him, and if I weren't around, he likely would be drinking nearly every day. My concerns starts with how drunk he seems to get compared to everyone else in the room. I can have a quite a few drinks and be fine, but he has a few in a short amount of time and becomes a different person. He is not mean, aggressive, abusive or anything. But he becomes very... odd. It starts off with forgetfulness and trouble forming sentences (finding words, finishing thoughts, etc.) This, I also just chocked up to being drunk. But then, the eye fluttering and head bobbing begin. That's when I know it's time to tell him to go sleep it off. Then begins his rambling, like he doesn't know what's going on.. like he is in a different world. For example: the other night he was laying in bed after drinking and I came in the room to see he him. He began asking about "the glasses." He said: "I have to disagree about the glasses. The glasses that are a good gift. They are a small gift. They are a soft gift. Do you know what I mean?" Of course, I did not know what he meant and what he was saying had no relevance to anything we had spoken about earlier in the day. I am beginning to worry he has some neurological disorder that is contributing to this drunken behavior. Does anyone have any experience with similar situations or behaviors? I was looking into Wernicke Syndrome and wondering if that could potentially be the issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you | ||
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Posted: January 4, 2018, 5:44 AM
Hi
I think its just the drink. My ex partner was a bit similar. It would only take a few drinks sometimes as was always just topping up. He would be fine one minute then his eyes would go very small, squinty like and started blinking a lot. I also knew that was time to go. Then he would start rambling about something we weren't talking about or start saying someone was looking at him. Within a few minutes he would go from being OK to being pissed and not on the same planet! I would always leave but would find out the next day from the bar staff that he would have continued and got worse. I hope this helps. | ||
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