Anyone else's parents/in-laws drink like fish?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on vacation with my DH's family and the wine just flows. My MIL repeats herself and gets teary and on and on. Their friends drop in for a cocktail and stay for dinner. I swear it's like a geriatric frat house!! I mean good for them, they earned it, but I'm also like, good lord people I can't keep up and you're 75!!

boomers are really just awful all around they don't deserve anything except an exit off earth so that their hoarding of wealth and resources subsides

Wow! So hateful! Boomers have made mistakes like everyone else. You think you’re perfect?!

She’s just jealous. My adult children love me, and they’re getting all of my money. She’s not getting shit.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on vacation with my DH's family and the wine just flows. My MIL repeats herself and gets teary and on and on. Their friends drop in for a cocktail and stay for dinner. I swear it's like a geriatric frat house!! I mean good for them, they earned it, but I'm also like, good lord people I can't keep up and you're 75!!

Wait until you start touring independent living centers with your parents. They all tout the bar/happy hours. Also, remember during covid when everything shut down except liquor stores because they were needed? Unfortunately, we are a nation of alcoholics

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on vacation with my DH's family and the wine just flows. My MIL repeats herself and gets teary and on and on. Their friends drop in for a cocktail and stay for dinner. I swear it's like a geriatric frat house!! I mean good for them, they earned it, but I'm also like, good lord people I can't keep up and you're 75!!

boomers are really just awful all around they don't deserve anything except an exit off earth so that their hoarding of wealth and resources subsides

Wow! So hateful! Boomers have made mistakes like everyone else. You think you’re perfect?!

She’s just jealous. My adult children love me, and they’re getting all of my money. She’s not getting shit.

Love is money and money is love? Huh? -NP

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is a prime example of how DCUM today is not the DCUM of older days...weird.

Anyway, I notice my parents drink more than I do. They are waspy and have their little cocktail hour each evening. They're very rigid with routines. If I opt not to drink they are kind about it but clearly irked. They genuinely do not understand that some people don't want to drink (they way it feels, calories, have to work, prefer something else). It's strange. I get a little tense at 5:15 every time I visit knowing the "Are you having a drink tonight?" is coming.

Me, on the other hand, LOVES this sort of hospitality. Visiting fun and gregarious family and in-laws is 100x better than visiting painfully boring family and in-laws.

My in-laws manage to drink heavily without being fun, gregarious, or laid-back. It’s the worst of both worlds. My aunt and uncle who don’t drink but who don’t mind if anyone drinks around them and who do provide alcohol to guests are actually the most hilarious, casual, welcoming hosts in our entire family.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on vacation with my DH's family and the wine just flows. My MIL repeats herself and gets teary and on and on. Their friends drop in for a cocktail and stay for dinner. I swear it's like a geriatric frat house!! I mean good for them, they earned it, but I'm also like, good lord people I can't keep up and you're 75!!

No. Fortunately both set of parents are pretty smart and responsible so they don't drink.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes I hate going on vacation with my in-laws because they are wasted most of the trip. It is not fun being around them as I am not much of a drinker. They are overly emotional and think it's funny to insult everyone. I am over it.

Your DH is the same or different?

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My boomer Mom & her DH have an alcohol dependency. They literally can't spend a weekend with us (non-drinkers) without ordering a glass of wine or going to a store to buy wine or mixers for liquor. Their hard-partying friend just died of a massive heart attack, but they don't see that as a deterrent. At this point, there's no cutting back or quitting.

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Anonymous wrote:My 5 foot 1, 105 pound, 78 yo MIL houses two bottles of Chardonnay every single night and has for as long as I've known her (26 years).

On special occasions like xmas or Thanksgiving she ups it to three. I've picked her up off the floor probably a dozen times over the years. She has pissed herself on more than one occasion.

Yet somehow you are more trashy than she is.

Not pp. I assume you are an alcoholic and the post above is triggering your shame. It's on you to do something about it. I would refuse to participate in mil's care and would not be picking her up off the floor. She clearly has a drinking problem and no one should pretend she doesn't.

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Anonymous wrote:My boomer Mom & her DH have an alcohol dependency. They literally can't spend a weekend with us (non-drinkers) without ordering a glass of wine or going to a store to buy wine or mixers for liquor. Their hard-partying friend just died of a massive heart attack, but they don't see that as a deterrent. At this point, there's no cutting back or quitting.

I mean, you sound completely insufferable, so ordering "a glass of wine" doesn't seem like a crazy move.

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Anonymous wrote:Boomer here with boomer spouse. Four adult kids all in their 30s and 40s with similarly aged spouses. They all drink much more than we do now and ever have, especially at family gatherings and vacations. But here’s the thing: we don’t judge their entire generation because of it. In fact, we don’t judge it at all. Who gives a shit? People who judge whole generations and people who drink just suck.

You sound sanctimonious and awful. There’s a reason nobody can stand you people.

Alchie

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Anonymous wrote:You’re judging people just trying to have fun on their vacation? Maybe spend the evening self-reflecting and tomorrow you can join them. Be sure to leave the stick in the bedroom.

You can’t have fun without drinking alcohol? Alcohol is required for fun? Hmmm. -NP

Alcohol has been associated with fun in most cultures for thousands of years. Don’t act like it is weird.

But now we know so much more about its negative side… like how it causes cancer!

Cave men beat their children and married their sisters, and lived to be 31 - “been doing it for thousands of years” isn’t much of an argument.

There is also strong evidence for its health benefits and its social benefits. People who drink in moderation tend to be significantly healthier and happier than non-drinkers.

No. That’s a myth. There’s no health upside to drinking. It causes cancer.

Exactly. When I saw the title I knew someone would come in spouting this bs. Not one bit of what that poster stated is true. One glass of wine per day increases a woman's chance of breast cancer significantly.

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Anonymous wrote:You’re judging people just trying to have fun on their vacation? Maybe spend the evening self-reflecting and tomorrow you can join them. Be sure to leave the stick in the bedroom.

You can’t have fun without drinking alcohol? Alcohol is required for fun? Hmmm. -NP

Alcohol has been associated with fun in most cultures for thousands of years. Don’t act like it is weird.

Every day?

The prior post is so idiotic it is hard to believe someone wasted the time typing that.

So much stupidity...

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Anonymous wrote:The COVID jab is way worse than alcohol. That's why everybody stopped getting boosted way before the CDC stopped advising it.

So, so, so much stupidity...

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Anonymous wrote:I'm on vacation with my DH's family and the wine just flows. My MIL repeats herself and gets teary and on and on. Their friends drop in for a cocktail and stay for dinner. I swear it's like a geriatric frat house!! I mean good for them, they earned it, but I'm also like, good lord people I can't keep up and you're 75!!

Wait until you start touring independent living centers with your parents. They all tout the bar/happy hours. Also, remember during covid when everything shut down except liquor stores because they were needed? Unfortunately, we are a nation of alcoholics

They weren't "needed," they wanted depressed Americans to turn to booze because it numbs the masses and brings in buckets of tax revenue for the bureaucrats.

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I'm not a total light weight when it comes to alcohol but I always used to look forward to visiting my husband's father because he was such a charismatic old school booze hound and got everyone to drink during happy hour.

He died a couple years ago. Miss him a ton. Nobody else on either side of our extended families comes anywhere close to creating that fun chatty ethos we all enjoyed at his home.