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[quote=Anonymous]When I was a little younger than him, I remember getting defensive when girlfriends -- it was always girlfriends -- would talk to me about my drinking. I was drinking a ton, but that was my entertainment and I was handling my responsibilities. So, I get what that's like on his end. As my responsibilities ramped up, my drinking went down. Now I'm 50 and have something like a 12 pack of beer spread throughout the week.

So, I'm generally prone to taking the drinker's side in these kinds of things. But what you describe is just too much. So, he needs to cut it back. I don't know exactly how you get him to understand that. Part of why I was so resistant was because so many people were way too uptight about drinking and were apt to describe even moderate, manageable drinking as a crisis. So I didn't trust that these people were particularly reliable at distinguishing between problematic and non-problematic behavior.

Also, probably part of the reason I kept drinking heavier than I should longer than I should was because I missed the things that went along with the drinking. My fun girlfriends who I met while drinking seemed to cut back on their consumption and became less fun in general. I missed my buddies who moved away and was generally resisting growing up. I eventually did, but in retrospect I was fighting against a lifetime spending increasingly sexless evenings watching reality TV with my significant other and having nothing to look forward to other than another several decades of work.[/quote]

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