📝 AITAH for being furious with my husband because he passed out drunk in his car and I had to go looking for him?

By keto_emma • Score: 13 • April 11, 2025 10:40 PM


My husband was out for drinks with old work colleagues. He went our at 1pm, I was home alone with our 1 year old. He text me at 8pm saying he was heading for the train and he would walk home from the station (30 min train ride and 20 minutes walk along a straight road). By 9.30 I was starting to worry, he hadn't been online in 20 minutes, and hadn't updated me to say he was walking back. His phone rang out. 20 more minutes pass and I start to get more concerned. I'm home alone with my toddler so I call my local friend. At 10pm she says she will go out looking for him and drive the road he should walk along. She gets to mine at 10.20pm and said she drove all around the station and the next station just incase he missed the stop. At 10.30pm 2.5 hours after he said he was on his way back I phone my step dad (ex police) he says he will head over too. My friend stays in with my baby and I go looking for him. I find him at 10.40pm passed out in the car in the station car park. I wake him up and tell him to get in my car and I was worried sick about him. He starts getting combative saying "not to speak to him like that". He wasn't feeling well and needed to sit down before the walk home and he'd done nothing wrong. We get home and he storms upstairs, then comes down and tells me he never intentionally fell asleep, he wasn't feeling well and needed to rest before the walk home and I was acting like he'd done something deliberately, but he didn't mean to. I'm furious and feel like he is a liability, and if he gets so drunk that he can't get himself home then that is still his responsibility.

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