• TxzK@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Also pretty sure I didn’t want to run over an orphanage and kill 37 children

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    7 months ago

    When I was an alcoholic, I wanted to keep my best friend from ruining his marriage by having an affair, so I tried to murder him with a gun. Pretty sure I would’ve gone about it differently had I been sober.

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        7 months ago

        We were working together in a different state; he kept talking about this girl we worked with; we got drunk at her place- some of us (me) drunker than others; he gave me a ride back to the house we were renting and then went back to the party; I was convinced he was gonna sleep with the girl, and was infuriated he’d do that to his lovely wife and their daughter; I got my pistol and was gonna shoot him when he got home; I was too drunk to chamber a round; our other roommate was there and wrestled the gun away from me.

        It’s an insane bit of logic. “In order to keep you from ruining your marriage, I’m going to kill you.”

        His wife ended up sleeping with her boss a few years later, too, so. 🤷‍♂️

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    7 months ago

    I was in a long term relationship with someone with a drinking problem. When a drunk person says something to you they fucking mean it. Their filter is weaker and, as I label it “they have the courage to say something that they were afraid to say sober.” When you figure this out everything is easier to understand.

    • village604@adultswim.fan
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      7 months ago

      There’s an old saying that the first thought in your head is what you’re conditioned to think, and the second is what you actually think. Kind of an ego/id thing.