Having dated Charlie for 5 years during his drunken stupors and supporting 8 months of his sobriety, I’m not surprised that he still hides parts about his life because regardless of what he says about not caring about what people think, he is very sensitive to his critics.
He hid his alcohol addiction from me and everyone else. I would find cans of beer and alcohol in the back of our closet, his car, and our garage. His getting sober journey is comical since he couldn’t remember the day he got sober and said he didn’t care about the date and people that tracked their progress are losers. I took him back after he hit his “rock bottom” that day in June and demanded he go to AA immediately (which he did).
I went with him to his first meeting and he said, “these are my people. I belong here” But decided to stop after a 4th of July BBQ where for the first time in his life he couldn’t seek that validation that he so desperately craves being the nephew of a famous golfer. So, he quit. And decided to do it cold turkey, and found the influencer life in the process; attracting lots of attention online, and mostly from women. He also failed to disclose that all of his teeth had to be pulled to where he now has full upper dentures and a bridge on the bottom due to excessive drinking, smoking, vaping, and not going to the dentist for 20 years.
After years of his lying, substance abuse, (finding cocaine in his wallet) as well as financial infidelity, verbal abuse, and also infidelity, I sent him packing his things, only to find that he still hid his dependency as I found full liquor bottles in our home replaced with water last year and was hiding several relations with women from me. He did not “find God” until weeks before I ended things in 2025, so the talk about him going to church didn’t happen in his timeline.
It’s great to see that he’s still up to selling his b.s. He’s quite the charmer. It worked on me. He fooled a lot of people and it seems he still continues to do so.
I’m just glad I’m not one of his victims anymore.
