Yes, when they are in the deep fog, it is unbelievable how bad their memories are. For many, many months we would leave the driveway to go somewhere we had gone a 1000 times and my h would need reminders on where to turn.
I did not ask my h to do a thing for the kids in those days even though he lived at home. Sadly, I just didn't trust him to watch over them properly. It made me less angry as I could see with my very own eyes that he was lost, plain and simple.
Me 41, H 47, M 15 yrs, S11, S13 BD 1: 11/4/14 we work on it; really I pretzel myself BD 2: 3/31/15 H goes down to "dorm room" 8/15: H back to MBR 10/15: H back in dorm room 1/18: H files, now divorced