How many alcoholic drinks do you have a week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Male. 12-15 drinks every night I don’t have to work the next day.

You're an achololic

And yet you’re the one who seems drunk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A very thin friend in her 60s wanted to share a single bottle of wine among ourselves and our spouses. I had to tell her that my husband and I drink a bottle ourselves three or four times a month. A bottle is 5 glasses, and 2.5 glasses consumed in 2.5 hours over a nice meal per person doesn’t seem like a lot to me (but we don’t drink at all during the week).

Why did you "have to tell her" how much you and your DH drink? Why couldn't you just share the bottle with her like she suggested? Be flexible sometimes. Especially when it's in your best interest health wise.

Because I wanted more than a glass of wine with my dinner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A very thin friend in her 60s wanted to share a single bottle of wine among ourselves and our spouses. I had to tell her that my husband and I drink a bottle ourselves three or four times a month. A bottle is 5 glasses, and 2.5 glasses consumed in 2.5 hours over a nice meal per person doesn’t seem like a lot to me (but we don’t drink at all during the week).

Why did you "have to tell her" how much you and your DH drink? Why couldn't you just share the bottle with her like she suggested? Be flexible sometimes. Especially when it's in your best interest health wise.

Because I wanted more than a glass of wine with my dinner.

You could have handled it more tactfully by saying "Sure, let's start with that!" A waiter would have asked if you wanted more. Or just stuck to one glass of wine that night.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering this is a moms & dads forums, I’m surprised at how many people go to bars multiple times a week.
I go to a bar maybe twice a year.
For socializing, we got to restaurants or someone hosts it at their house.
I drink 2-3 times a month, 1-2 drinks each time.

Yes the idea of having 20-30 drinks a week, as a PP reported, as a parent with minor children and in my case a job and hobbies, just sounds not possible. I might have approached that amount briefly in my 20s when I went out like 5 nights a week and my body could metabolize 4 drinks without causing a hangover the next day. Maybe a couple vacations pre-kids where I drank at that level, especially if at a resort where we were just relaxing most days. But as a 30 or 40 something with kids and a full time job? How? I also exercise daily and need 6 hours of sleep minimum to be functional -- there is simply not time to go drink at a bar with friends for hours in end more than a few times a year.

I have a friend who is extremely successful. Makes millions of dollars per year holding a high level job and is a person in the spotlight. She easily drinks at least a bottle of wine daily during the week and on the weekends, 3-4 bottles daily. You would have NO IDEA. She's an absolute superhuman machine. I can't get a proper night's sleep if I have 2-3 glasses, or have too much social activity. Meanwhile she's doing more in a day than an average person does in a year, working in the day and partying at night, all through the weekend-- for YEARS. Oh and she looks like a supermodel. I would not believe this were possible if I didn't know her. She has a constitution that would make Rasputin jealous. But you and me, pp, we are delicate hot house flowers, we are pinot grapes to her tungsten steel. I am in total awe. I also worry about her liver.

There's a term for this. High-functioning alcoholic. It will catch up to her eventually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A very thin friend in her 60s wanted to share a single bottle of wine among ourselves and our spouses. I had to tell her that my husband and I drink a bottle ourselves three or four times a month. A bottle is 5 glasses, and 2.5 glasses consumed in 2.5 hours over a nice meal per person doesn’t seem like a lot to me (but we don’t drink at all during the week).

Why did you "have to tell her" how much you and your DH drink? Why couldn't you just share the bottle with her like she suggested? Be flexible sometimes. Especially when it's in your best interest health wise.

Because I wanted more than a glass of wine with my dinner.

You could have handled it more tactfully by saying "Sure, let's start with that!" A waiter would have asked if you wanted more. Or just stuck to one glass of wine that night.

Why shouldn’t I do what I want? It’s not tactful to suggest she and her husband should each get a glass of wine instead of sharing our bottle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A very thin friend in her 60s wanted to share a single bottle of wine among ourselves and our spouses. I had to tell her that my husband and I drink a bottle ourselves three or four times a month. A bottle is 5 glasses, and 2.5 glasses consumed in 2.5 hours over a nice meal per person doesn’t seem like a lot to me (but we don’t drink at all during the week).

Why did you "have to tell her" how much you and your DH drink? Why couldn't you just share the bottle with her like she suggested? Be flexible sometimes. Especially when it's in your best interest health wise.

Because a single bottle of wine is the exact right amount for my husband and I to have with a nice multi course meal. I’m not asking how I should have handled the social interaction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Male. 12-15 drinks every night I don’t have to work the next day.

You're an achololic

And yet you’re the one who seems drunk.

NP. This made me laugh.

[Anonymous]

Not enough for this administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not enough for this administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A very thin friend in her 60s wanted to share a single bottle of wine among ourselves and our spouses. I had to tell her that my husband and I drink a bottle ourselves three or four times a month. A bottle is 5 glasses, and 2.5 glasses consumed in 2.5 hours over a nice meal per person doesn’t seem like a lot to me (but we don’t drink at all during the week).

Why did you "have to tell her" how much you and your DH drink? Why couldn't you just share the bottle with her like she suggested? Be flexible sometimes. Especially when it's in your best interest health wise.

Because I wanted more than a glass of wine with my dinner.

You could have handled it more tactfully by saying "Sure, let's start with that!" A waiter would have asked if you wanted more. Or just stuck to one glass of wine that night.

Why shouldn’t I do what I want? It’s not tactful to suggest she and her husband should each get a glass of wine instead of sharing our bottle?

No, it’s tactful to defer to the older person.

[Anonymous]

For years it was 2-3 IPAs a night, every night, and many more when out "partying" every couple of months.

Been ZERO for 5.5 years. Woke up one morning and said "enough".

[Anonymous]

It used to be 2-6 each week when I was younger.

Then I stopped being able to sleep with perimenopause and it was only on special occasions.

Now I’m on a Glp-1 and never want any alcohol. I haven’t had a drink in months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering this is a moms & dads forums, I’m surprised at how many people go to bars multiple times a week.
I go to a bar maybe twice a year.
For socializing, we got to restaurants or someone hosts it at their house.
I drink 2-3 times a month, 1-2 drinks each time.

Yes the idea of having 20-30 drinks a week, as a PP reported, as a parent with minor children and in my case a job and hobbies, just sounds not possible. I might have approached that amount briefly in my 20s when I went out like 5 nights a week and my body could metabolize 4 drinks without causing a hangover the next day. Maybe a couple vacations pre-kids where I drank at that level, especially if at a resort where we were just relaxing most days. But as a 30 or 40 something with kids and a full time job? How? I also exercise daily and need 6 hours of sleep minimum to be functional -- there is simply not time to go drink at a bar with friends for hours in end more than a few times a year.

I have a friend who is extremely successful. Makes millions of dollars per year holding a high level job and is a person in the spotlight. She easily drinks at least a bottle of wine daily during the week and on the weekends, 3-4 bottles daily. You would have NO IDEA. She's an absolute superhuman machine. I can't get a proper night's sleep if I have 2-3 glasses, or have too much social activity. Meanwhile she's doing more in a day than an average person does in a year, working in the day and partying at night, all through the weekend-- for YEARS. Oh and she looks like a supermodel. I would not believe this were possible if I didn't know her. She has a constitution that would make Rasputin jealous. But you and me, pp, we are delicate hot house flowers, we are pinot grapes to her tungsten steel. I am in total awe. I also worry about her liver.

There's a term for this. High-functioning alcoholic. It will catch up to her eventually.

There's another term for this: Terminally online trolls who just make up crap. PP is full of crap. PP is also too dim to know a personal anecdote -- likely made up from thin air -- means nothing in the broader context of the hard data alcohol is literally poison and especially at the binge drinking levels detailed, diminishes and destroys people's lives. PP is likely a coping alcoholic who lacks the willpower to give up the bottle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who is extremely successful. Makes millions of dollars per year holding a high level job and is a person in the spotlight. She easily drinks at least a bottle of wine daily during the week and on the weekends, 3-4 bottles daily. You would have NO IDEA. She's an absolute superhuman machine. I can't get a proper night's sleep if I have 2-3 glasses, or have too much social activity. Meanwhile she's doing more in a day than an average person does in a year, working in the day and partying at night, all through the weekend-- for YEARS. Oh and she looks like a supermodel. I would not believe this were possible if I didn't know her. She has a constitution that would make Rasputin jealous. But you and me, pp, we are delicate hot house flowers, we are pinot grapes to her tungsten steel. I am in total awe. I also worry about her liver.

An alcoholic pseudo famous executive, financier, or media personality shares the very specific amount of alcohol they drink daily with one of their best friends, who is an online troll who doxxes them to blab about it on the largest forum in D.C. (in a thinly-veiled attempt to glorify HFA). Riiiiiiiiiiight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:most weeks 0. some weeks 2. rarely 6-8.

I can't even imagine having 6-8 drinks in a week.

Between the 9 days of December 27 through January 4 I had 5 social events I attended and I had a total of 4 drinks over those 9 days.

I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, for the record, I was just a little shocked when I saw 6-8 and it seemed like a huge number to me.

you are shocked by the number 6 - 8 but you don't think anything about the people finishing a handle in 3 days or a week. that is 40 shots in 3 days or a week!

6-8 could happen on a weekend with a pool party or two.

I was shocked by that post, too. Not sure why you'd think I wasn't. Did someone strike a nerve?