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I have had to deal with my husband lying to me on many occasions. I can identify a justification fable from miles away. I use to listen to him repeating the same made up story, carefully trying not to mix up the made up facts. Repeating it and repeating it and repeating it as if that would eventually make it believable. Perhaps so that he can remember it on a later occasion..? This would infuriate me because really - do I look like you need to repeat things to me 10 times? But I have also learned to listen very carefully. A web of lies usually has some missing stitches. And if I listen long enough I can see the holes in the story. I always know when my husband is lying. I am myself after all, a very good teller of lies. Shouldn't I be able to identify one?

Anyway, here's the gripe.

Yesterday was mother’s day. My sister and I took our mother to an afternoon high tea. Smashing! This of course called the need for our husbands to watch the kids. When my husband came to pick me up, he reeked of alcohol. When I confronted him he immediately started making excuses like "when was I supposed to have the time to drink?" What BS. He also did the "I'm so shocked that you would think that" - face. Then eventually came the story he had drank a sachet (or no, it was two sachets) of Bioplus. On a previous occasion he had used mouth wash as an excuse (this is now banned) and obviously brought up the preservative in the flu meds I give him...

I couldn't do it. The 3 hour marathon “I didn’t do it”. Because you see, the previous weekend we went to wedding - where he did drink because he felt morally obligated. The next day he bought non-alcoholic beer because he felt like the taste of beer.

I can't help wondering today exactly how long I am going to suffer this - because really it is suffering. Things have been going so well. I was once again duped into believing that change is an actual possibility if not genuine reality.

Now, I'm just wondering if anyone has some ideas on how I can remove the words "Gullible, Stupid, Idiot" that is obviously written in BOLD in my forehead......