XN's moodswings in just 24 hours

I was thinking today if XN was ever just normal and relaxed. And my conclusion was 'rarely'.

These are the sides of XN I would get in the course of a 24 hour period:

(Someone please tell me how I'm not in a straitjacket right now, gibbering in a corner!)

Manic - whistling, singing, energetic. He'd be like this on a Friday evening after work and cooking us tea. It wouldn't last long before it went to:

Tired/exhausted/grumpy - usually after the meal he'd cooked. He'd lay out on the sofa, barely grunting because he was so tired, and would demand that I got the Horlicks out for him, before disappearing off to bed without saying a word. One of my male friends came round one Friday evening and told me in a quiet moment that he thought XN was really ignorant because XN was just laid out on the sofa barely speaking to me or my friend. I'd thought XN had done quite well that night for him!

Stressed/restless - he'd usually wake up the following morning like this. I had to keep him constantly distracted and entertained to prevent him from going into the angry stage or from going into work which he usually did every Sunday.

Obsessional/overly focused - he'd sit on my pc and look at golf or rugby websites for hours. If we went to the supermarket, he'd be practising his golf swing in the supermarket aisles (to my embarrassment).

Lecturing - he'd decide to impart his knowledge on something to me and would lecture me for an hour, raging as he did so that life was so unfair.

Then I might get one of the following scenarios:

Intensely seductive - he'd turn on the charm and get me upstairs into the bedroom or:

Sulking - sitting behind a magazine for an hour, refusing to talk to me.

Anger - simmering with rage, usually followed by him walking out of the door to go back to his mum or to take out his rage at the driving range.

Withdrawn - he'd not respond to calls/e-mails/texts for days or weeks. This was what I got from a Friday night to a Saturday/Sunday evening (depending on when he chose to walk out) and it would always be some variation of all the above.

I'm a fairly stable person. I get tired and can have moods like the next person but to experience the whole lot in 24 hours was exhausting for me, plus I had to be constantly nice to prevent him going into a bad mood! Woe betide me if I was in a bad mood at all!