I’m always sickened by the number of people I see on a weekly basis who drive their cars in a way that puts everyone around them at risk.
But what would you do if that were closer to home, and you were married to someone who put your life on the line over and over again, simply because they kept falling asleep at the wheel?
This 26-year-old woman has been with her 27-year-old husband for five years, and they married three years ago. Over the weekend, her husband drove her and their two dogs to a store to shop for furniture.
They were on the highway when all of a sudden, her husband passed out while in the driver’s seat. He came so close to rear-ending the car in front of them, and it’s lucky he didn’t.
“The car alarm and brake system saved us from colliding with the car. At the speed he was going, we definitely could have killed someone, or he could have killed us. I’m still in shock this happened,” she explained.
“This isn’t the first time he’s fallen asleep behind the wheel. In fact, it’s happened several times. The most recent occurrence was about 2 months ago, and in that occurrence, he [rear-ended] someone and ended up totaling my car.”
Her car’s sensor for the collision system was not functioning, and so her husband said the crash was her fault, since she hadn’t gotten the sensor fixed.
She feels insane relaying all of this to strangers on the internet, and she’s struggled with her husband’s dangerous driving for close to a year now.
She’s planning on getting a divorce because she’s not seeing how she can keep on forgiving her husband for the same life-threatening problem.
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“I’ve told him to see a sleep specialist, to which he said he would and never made an appointment. Would all of these things that happened be grounds for divorce? Is there any way you could truly remedy these issues?” she wondered.
“We’ve decided to separate for a bit, but I think it would be best to divorce. Honestly, the only thing holding me back is my catholic parents who don’t believe in divorce, but rather forgiveness.”
I find it frightening that not only does her husband have zero self-preservation behind the wheel, but he also doesn’t care about keeping her or their pets safe, and that’s psychopath-worthy.
Her husband could easily hit someone else and kill them if he doesn’t end up doing that with her in the car and taking her life in the process.
This is so beyond scary that he doesn’t think he has an issue or needs to seek help, and his recklessness with his own life and the lives of everyone around him is mind-boggling to me. Does he have a death wish? Maybe he does.
She should never, ever get in the car with him again, and I do think a divorce is her best-case scenario since he won’t make the effort to figure out why this is happening, and it’s not normal at all.
He might even be taking something if there’s no clinical explanation for why he falls asleep at the wheel over and over again.
What advice do you have for her?
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By Bre Avery Zacharski
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