The husband leaves home on his bike and in his kit. But rather than going training, as he claims, he sneaks to the pub, says his worried wife.
Woman writes to Irish problem page about 'cyclist' husband sneaking to pub
A worried woman has written to a newspaper ‘problem page’ columnist seeking advice on her husband after she caught him going to the pub when he claimed he was cycling.
The story sounds funny, but it has a deadly serious side.
The woman’s husband has suffered a heart attack. And he lied to his wife, saying he was training and living more healthily.
However, while he was leaving the house on his bike in cycling kit, he was going to a nearby pub. Once there he was eating and drinking.
Furthermore, he’d then go home after the pub and explain about the training he’d done when he’d actually done none.
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Writing to The Irish Times advice column, the unnamed woman said her husband, an early retiree, was not a fan of exercise.
However, he’d bought the bike to get fitter and healthier. He’s “spent months planning cycling routes” and would then go out in the evenings for two hours.
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“I make a healthy dinner and run the bath for him and sometimes rub his aching muscles,” the woman wrote of looking after her husband after his “training rides”.
“He has been disappointed that this new regime has not yet impacted on his waistline.”
However, when the couple went out to a pub about two miles from their home she noticed the waitress seemed to know her husband very well.
“While I hate spying on him, I discreetly asked her how she knew him,” the woman wrote.
“She said that he comes into the bar most days in his cycling gear for a few pints and a full lunch.”
The woman said she felt angry he had fooled her and lied to her about the health improvements he had made.
She was now so worried about him it was impacting on her physically and mentally. Furthermore, she writes her husband had made significant strides, such as giving up smoking, and so she was worried about confronting him.
But if he did not change his ways she worried he would have a second heart attack.
The columnist has advised the letter writer to confront her husband in a way that encourages him to tell her what he has been doing.
She says this could be achieved of the worried woman tells her husband she has recently found out something upsetting about him and asks him to guess what he thinks it is.
The columnist says once the truth comes out she should then offer herself and the couple’s children as support to her husband in the battle to get fitter.
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