My partner has become abusive after becoming addicted to painkillers
DEAR DEIDRE: MY partner’s painkiller addiction is destroying him and our relationship.
We’re both 50 and have been together for 20 years.
Recently, my partner was in a horrendous motorbike crash that led to surgery.
He then became hooked on codeine.
He later began taking Lyrica among other pills.
Now he has become abusive.
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He’s pushed me when he’s been high and is mentally abusive when I try to talk to him about getting help.
He’s even suggested that my nagging is the reason he’s ‘leaning’ on these drugs.
Yesterday he yelled that he wished he’d never got together with me and claimed I’d let myself go.
Our relationship is in tatters. I want to leave him but I’m terrified of what he might do to himself.
How do I save my relationship with him?
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