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[quote=Anonymous]My husband used to smoke pot, almost daily, for about a year.  I had no clue.  But I did notice he acted stupid, he smelled, he didn't have any interest in the family (our kid was 2).  And then he got super paranoid.   And finally he got emotionally abusive.   Those last two are unusual with pot smoking but not unheard of.

Fortunately something traumatic happened that made him stop cold turkey.  He's been clean almost 8 years now.  While he's not the type of dad who would do a family game night or anything like that, he did start participating in my child's life in a much more consistent and reliable way.   He was able to do kid pick up in the evenings.  He cooks dinner often.   He cooks with our kid.    He does the bedtime routine with our kid.  He goes to school activities, concerts, plays, etc.   He's reliable.

So while he's not as participatory as many fathers are these days, he's in our kid's life daily.  Engaged.  Pot made him check out completely.   I didn't have a partner.  I had a man asleep on the couch most nights.   And my kid didn't have a father.   He had some old guy taking up space on the sofa.

I'm so grateful he's no longer like that.   I didn't understand then what was missing, but I can look back now and see how horrible the past 8 years would have been if he had continued smoking.[/quote]

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