Hey bros, I'm in need of some advice. I'm pretty sure I'm the asshole and just am good at fucking this shit up. The blows keep coming in 2023, so I'm pretty sure this year is cursed.
Some context as brief as I can. I started smoking weed again back in early December. I live in a legal state, and a co-worker of mine introduced me back into it and took me to a dispensary. Much different time than it was 20 years ago. Anyway, I talk to the wife about it and agree on CBD, for my neuropathy pain, to see if it will help. I take this as a full on hell yea I can smoke it up every night and I proceed to do so. I'm trying vaping, pre-rolls, etc. I suppose this is the first problem is that I took her acceptance way too far. In this month, I started smoking at home too, not just while I was traveling for work in a hotel as where it started. I keep smoking and the wife keeps asking if I'm smoking of which I tell her no! Multiple times. I'm hiding it from her because I know she'd shut that shit down, and I don't want to stop smoking. Well, I get caught red-handed and she's like wtf, you told me over and over again that you weren't smoking. Clearly you were this entire time and the hang-up is that I lied to her so easily for so long (1 month). If I can do that, what else am I lying about?
I realize I fucked up and I'm sorry, I tell her this, and I stop smoking immediately and haven't smoked since. She doesn't feel that I'm sorry enough. She feels that I'm sorry I got caught, not sorry I smoked weed, and she doesn't understand why I think lying isn't a big deal. I'm not trying to be in denial, but white lies, about whether you ate the last cookie, or took the last soda out of the fridge is about equal to this and she doesn't think so at all.
I ask her what can I do to make it better. Is there something I can do, or say, she says she doesn't know? She says to me she knows I'm sorry, and am remorseful, but it's not enough. How do I try and fix this, or help her out?