I 24m just thought I’d found my wife 24f dead and I don’t know how to approach this conversation.
I work in the emergency services and do shifts. Today whilst I was working late whilst my Wife was going to a shop opening party with her friends and have some drinks etc.
Whilst I’m at work dealing with some incidents I get a text from one of her friends stating she is the drunkest she’s ever been and in a bad way, but that her boyfriend has taken them both home. This is setting alarm bells off in my head and I had a terrible feeling something bad was going to happen.
My shift finished and I raced home, I can see the bathroom light on from the driveway. I go in and she’s not downstairs and all other lights are off apart from the bathroom. I’m calling her name and there’s no response. I get upstairs open the bathroom door and find her passed out, naked in the bath face down. I genuinely thought she’d drowned. Her phone was in the bottom of the bath and so was the bath tray. I was shouting and shaking her and luckily her nose and mouth weren’t in the water, she woke up and was completely incoherent laughing about it being funny. I helped her out of the bath and put her to bed trying to stress how bad this could have been.
I’m feeling so many emotions and I don’t know how to approach this tomorrow, I’m angry her friends and family have allowed her to get like this, I’m angry she’s got like this herself, I’m grateful she hasn’t drowned when she probably should’ve. I feel so fucking angry but grateful at the same time, but literally everything could’ve changed in my life today. Please help me approach this as it needs to be approached with everyone involved, how can I do this?
Posted Aug 31, 2025, 12:14 AM UTC