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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. 
Let me start by saying that just because I enjoy a nice wine on occasion in no way makes me an alcoholic or someone who has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. That is such a wild leap some of you are making. That is also why I clarified at the beginning that I don't drink regularly and never in excess.

As for Thanksgiving dinner, a nice Pinot is my cranberry sauce. It accompanies the turkey nicely and is just as important as the potatoes or desert.  It one of your family members had an unhealthy relationship with sugar, would you skip desert?  Also, just because my family doesn't enjoy wine, my grandmother used to but not at her age with her medications, shouldn't have any bearing on what I choose to drink.  There will be five, maybe six of us, so it's not like there are a lot of people not drinking. My partner doesn't drink wine either, but I still open a bottle on occasion.

As for my uncle, I want to be supportive of his sobriety and I want to be respectful to him.  He is recently sober, again, and seems to be doing well. He has never been a wine drinker and it is not like there is some big party with alcohol flowing, so I'm not sure that my one glass of wine would be a trigger for him.

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I posted before saying it depends on how long he's been sober.  Your analogies demonstrate that you know nothing about addiction.  Bringing alcohol into a man's house when he has recently been struggling with a relapse and his recovery is breathtakingly insensitive.  Just don't bring it.  I completely understand that your pinot goes great with the turkey.  Awesome.  Have some with leftovers at home.  We don't keep alcohol in the house anymore because my husband is in recovery.  I really miss having a glass of wine with dinner sometimes, so I get it.  But insisting on having that wine with this ONE dinner this ONE night is really just selfish.

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