Are women drinking more?

[Anonymous]

I think the title of this post is weird and op sounds out of touch. Op you don’t care whether women are overall drinking more you care that your wife is, and she’s not doing it bc of some macro societal shift (this is not 1920), she’s doing it for another reason. If she’s actually getting drunk multiple times a week (like 3+ drinks each time) then that’s for a reason unrelated to women in general across the whole world or country drinking more

[Anonymous]

Yeah sure. A woman getting drunk multiple times a week in a group of other women is totally unrelated to women drinking more in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women want to get together with friend and socialize because their H ‘s don’t care to.

Also women can’t go do healthy stuff together, it has to involve the kids because no h is going to watch his own kids 3 days a week.

So women get together, the kids play together (which is much needed break for women since their H ‘s can’t help in this area) and they drink wine.

3 glasses of wine over 4 hours… sure they get buzzed.

AGREE 100000%

It is isolating and lonely to be a middle aged woman : working remotely (even in office, many meetings on zoo!), and then many husnands do not want to talk/socialize after work but “zone out” over TV, and we STILL have kids, so we get together with friends - kids play- and gossip/drink. It is the camaraderie. Like in college.

I will more likely have 1 or 2 glasses or a water between - not to the point of drunk - but i do not judge others.

I would be more worried if your wife was drinking alone/ in secret.

Hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

Drinking so much that she’s getting drunk three times a week is a problem. Period. If she drank three times a week, but limited herself to 2 drinks (perhaps occasionally 3 even though that meets the definition of binge drinking), she’d likely be okay. However, if she’s regularly drinking to the point of drunkenness, she has a problem. The issue is she’s surrounded by women who do the same so she thinks this is normal. It’s not. I’ve found that big drinkers choose other big drinkers as friends. I’ve had to fade from friend circles where this type of drinking was the norm. I was happy to join in in my 20s, sometimes in my 30s, but have no interest in drinking more than 1-2 occasional glasses of wine in my 40s. This means I find myself hanging out less with some good friends who still drink a lot.

[Anonymous]

If she's drinking Tito's and soda or some other 'girly' drink it's all cool.

[Anonymous]

Define drunk? Does she need to drink, I can drink a glass or tie of wine 3 days in one eeek and then not drink at all the next week.

[Anonymous]

Yes, more women now drink and they drink more. They tend to combine the drinking with SSRI anti-depressants. There are also more women than men hooked on prescription narcotics, and they combine those with drinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, more women now drink and they drink more. They tend to combine the drinking with SSRI anti-depressants. There are also more women than men hooked on prescription narcotics, and they combine those with drinking.

Interesting. I once had a friend who always talked about taking her diazepam (is this a narcotic?), and she would also drink a ton while we were out.

[Anonymous]

I am surprised that she feels good enough to drink 3 days in a row. I am 40 y/o and don’t usually drink, because even drinking for one day makes me useless the next day.

[Anonymous]

Yeah well more alcohol tends to take the edge off a hangover.

[Anonymous]

I do not know if women are drinking more but I have noticed more women in alcoholic beverages commercials.

Also could it be that women are increasingly stressed from having more responsibility at work in addition to doing the lion share of child rearing and household management?

While I do not know if they are drinking more frequently I must say I am impressed by their ability to hold their own when it comes to number of glasses and the stiffness of the drinks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, more women now drink and they drink more. They tend to combine the drinking with SSRI anti-depressants. There are also more women than men hooked on prescription narcotics, and they combine those with drinking.

‘They tend to combine’ - based on what data and what research? The 4 women you know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, more women now drink and they drink more. They tend to combine the drinking with SSRI anti-depressants. There are also more women than men hooked on prescription narcotics, and they combine those with drinking.

Interesting. I once had a friend who always talked about taking her diazepam (is this a narcotic?), and she would also drink a ton while we were out.

No it’s an as needed benzo and I assume she was not combining them.
Good lord dcum can be beyond puritanical and ill informed about this stuff. Is not little house on prairie - learn what a Valium is

[Anonymous]

How does she even have time to get drunk 3 days a week? Doesn’t she have to work or have places to be etc?

Getting drunk three times a week is obviously excessive. Or even once a week depending what you mean by drunk..are you talking 2-3 glasses of wine over an evening with food- being giggly and annoying…or like martinis and stumbling around a total mess type of thing. And yes I realize 2-3 glasses of wine still is unhealthy.

Aside from the drinking I’m impressed she has time to get together with friends 3x/wk.

But yes- women drink more these days. I’ve been particularly surprised by the heavy drinking among the parents at my kids’ travel sports tournaments the last few years. And the moms seem to drink more than the dads!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, more women now drink and they drink more. They tend to combine the drinking with SSRI anti-depressants. There are also more women than men hooked on prescription narcotics, and they combine those with drinking.

Interesting. I once had a friend who always talked about taking her diazepam (is this a narcotic?), and she would also drink a ton while we were out.

No it’s an as needed benzo and I assume she was not combining them.
Good lord dcum can be beyond puritanical and ill informed about this stuff. Is not little house on prairie - learn what a Valium is

Looks like we found the lady mixing her pills with booze