Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 21:21     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
Yes and its strange to me you can't go one night without it...hhhmmm
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 21:19     Subject: Re: Visiting non-drinkers
If you were having dinner at a vegetarian’s house, would you take meat to have with dinner?
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 21:15     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
Anonymous wrote:You can survive one meal without alcohol. Respect your hosts.


+1

Alcohol is not a necessity like food and water.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 21:11     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
Why are you all spending NYE together? Is he planning to propose soon? My parents didn't meet my husbands parents until after we were engaged.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 21:07     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
I would play dumb and bring a bottle of champagne. I am not a big drinker but I need a glass or two on New Year’s Eve!
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 21:05     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
It says right in the OP that they are OK if their adult kids drink. This is not hard.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 21:02     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
That this is even a concern for you suggests that alcohol is playing too large a role in your life.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 20:55     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
Assuming your son and his girlfriend will be there? Do they drink? Will they be drinking? I would follow their lead.

Also understand the reason they don’t drink. Definitely agree that bringing alcohol to a recovering alcoholic’s house is incredibly rude and you should be able to survive for one night.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 20:39     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
You can survive one meal without alcohol. Respect your hosts.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 20:22     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
Extremely rude.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 20:05     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
Offer to take them to dinner, somewhere with alcohol. If that’s not enough to get you through the night then self-reflection might be in order.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 20:03     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
Do you know the reason why they don’t drink? I think it’s fraught to bring alcohol in to someone’s home if they are recovering alcoholic or abstain for personal reasons.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 20:00     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
I don't drink, but it wouldn't bother me at all for you to bring your own. I reccommend you also bring something the hosts enjoy.
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 19:58     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
This is what flasks are for. Don't bring wine for dinner
Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 19:56     Subject: Visiting non-drinkers
I will be spending New Year’s Eve with my son’s girlfriend’s parents for the first time . They apparently do not drink (though are okay if their adult kids do). I enjoy wine with dinner, and to be honest would ideally have some wine on New Year’s Eve—especially in a socially charged situation—nothing excessive at all.

But, perhaps it is rude of me to bring wine, if they don’t drink? (No one under 21 will be present.) Thanks.