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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she has the same bottle for 3 weeks it's one thing. It's different if she gets a new open bottle every 3 days. [/quote]

A bottle of wine every three days is nothing. Effing puritanical American society.[/quote]

I was thinking the same thing and I don't even drink wine.  There is 6 glasses of wine in a bottle, wine is 11% alcohol. Drinking a glass with dinner and another one with the spouse when the kids are in bed as you watch tv or catch up about the day is not outrageous and I fear, pretty common. Would you literally brand your friends as alcoholics for having a glass of wine at dinner and one whilst watching tv with their partner?  People have no notions of what's worrying behavior ( hoarding bottles of alcohol left and right/ drinking huge amounts of alcohol to the point of being non-fonctioning/needing to drink and suffering from massive withdrawal when not drinking/drinking at work/ when looking for children/drunk-driving) vs what's harmless behavior (storing ONE bottle of alcohol in your private space and having one or two glasses after work).

The drinking on duty after bedtime is not ideal and I would address that BUT she wasn't even hiding it, meaning she probably wasn't abusing alcohol and was just doing what she does at home of having wine while watching netflix and didn't realize she would be (ridiculously) labelled as an alcoholic for a glass of wine.  Ultimately I don't know of many parents who haven't ever had a glass of wine/beer/ drink when at a dinner with friends with the kids in tow or hosting dinner. I know AP is paid but I wonder if people who assume AP is an alcoholic  for one glass of wine at bedtime spend their day on the phone with CPS trying to report absolutely everyone for the most ridiculous things considering the paranoia on this thread.

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