| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? 11:10 - Nov 29 with 11772 views | RobTheMonk |
Up until around 5 years back I was a pretty hardcore weekend binge drinker. Hangovers started getting worse and I was generally feeling rough for days afterwards. Slowly started phasing out booze and now in my mid 30's I barely touch the stuff. I sleep so much better, have much more energy and have been told I look like I've lost some weight. It's amazing how much disposable income you have too (even with kids which is another catalyst in the hardly drinking booze).
If we go up and see Madge's parents, I might have a few beers in an evening, but I don't feel like I have that lack of a stop button any more. I'll have two and be "Yep, I'm done".
I'm also very grateful to my close friends. I said I'm not drinking at the moment and the reaction was "No problem mate, come for a few hours if you can and head off when you need". No pressure whatsoever which is how it should be.
TLDR: Barely drink these days. |  | | |  |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 16:33 - Nov 29 with 2149 views | BigCommon |
I hardly drink at all... My birthday falls in December. So once a year in December, I buy myself a bottle of single malt and stretch it out over the Birthday/Christmas/New Tear period, as a treat, with a book...
Glass of wine around the Christmas dinner table.
The odd cold cider in the Summer.
Haven't been in a pub for over a decade, and I live next door to one.
And that's my annual intake. |  | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 16:48 - Nov 29 with 2093 views | GlasgowBlue |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 15:37 - Nov 29 by Tractor_Buck |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:04 - Nov 29 with 2068 views | monytowbray |
I have the odd pint or half pint socially at a gig or pub social but I can take or leave it. I used to be a heavy partying drinker from 16 until my mid 20s. In 2014 i stopped for most the year as I realised I was wasting time/money and waking up with anxiety from black outs, plus the physical/mental side of a hangover which lasted days for me (mental side at least). My biggest issue with booze has always been self control - once 3 drinks are in I won’t stop until I’m too far gone.
I found myself single in 2016 after 7-8 years and booze snuck back in, alas I’d say 80% of the time I was enjoying it again as I was meeting new people and feeling a lot more like I could be myself (my previous relationship wasn’t particularly healthy or wanted by myself or my ex, so was like getting off a lead).
Fast forward to start of 2019 and a very grim breakup off the back of 2 1/2 years of mental/financial abuse and lies. I’d moved to London and was drinking similar levels to my early 20s again, but through the fall out of that I slipped into a very bad place. I would miss work and stay in bed for days on end doing nothing but drinking neat vodka until I passed out, wake up and carry on. Time lost any purpose over those periods. I think if I added them up over the year they’d have totalled at least a month, with the minimum session being 2-3 days It’s hard to look back and pinpoint where my mind was because it was quite overwhelming and painful. I think in part being drunk was an escape short term. I also think I wanted to die but I’m too much of a coward to actually commit, so I hoped I might “accidentally” drink myself to death. There was a lot going on overlapped which made the whole thing a mess.
End of 2019 I left a job I was miserable with whilst being quite jaded with my professional life. I was starting to realise I was a highly skilled worker making money for greasy pole climbers, bullies and morons with investment capital. Working in a generally younger industry you find a lot of gesture policies in the work place which seem like perks when you’re young and just climbed out of minimum wage jobs during a recession. But I don’t want yoga mornings, daily cake and paid-for p1ss ups which only enforced my personal issues with booze. I walked out one Monday afternoon at 3pm and went home, decided not to go back and within 2 days my contract was terminated with gardening leave. From there I decided to see if I could get by working for myself and pitched for work over new employment to my LinkedIn network.
It was around this time I woke up from yet another boozy mess of a week where I spent 3 days drunk on my mate’s sofa clearing out her leftover spirit cabinet, which had caused me to miss my second CBT appointment. I’d waited 11 months to be seen and felt like an idiot. So I had to ring my therapist and be really honest about my alcohol issues. I went back and there was a penny drop moment in my 3rd-4th session where reframing my behaviours and thoughts armed me with what I needed to sort my brain out. I woke from a 2 day session of neat Vodka and Monkey’s Finger Rum on December 8th 2019 - bar a couple of big celebratory nights out where I had maybe 4-5 drinks over the course of an entire night, I’ve not been remotely p1ssed since, let alone blackout drunk.
I guess I had to really sink to low and undeniably problematic drinking before I acknowledged that actually I’ve always had a bit of a problem with alcohol abuse.
It was also this time I noted that since sorting my health/weight in 2015 I was fatter than ever. I had an extra 5-6 inches vs now on my waist. It was like the booze haze lifted and I saw myself without beer Goggles. This inspired me to sort my health and strength out now in my 30s so I can have a better life longer term - happy in my own skin and able to enjoy myself. Alas this year a patch of existentialist depression has made me put an inch back on, but I live within a healthy remit generally and am already a week into the process of getting back on the wagon.
3 years later I’m earning my highest salary whilst working 1/3 less than before so that worked out. I have more time back to be productive or even be lazy if needed. Sex drive is better than ever. My house is full of plants and my garden looks lovely. I’m generally more certain about who I am and what I want in life than ever. I have little time for BS from others and won’t entertain such nonsense (be it through ignoring it or telling people to f**k off).
My only real vice these days is weed, but that’s more medicinal than anything. You can see from the above why I get so f**ked off with some of the anti-drug propaganda some on the board share before a thread about their favourite IPAs a week later though. I don’t judge others for drinking and I know plenty of folk who can handle their booze happily, but I’m not having my choices graded to determine my value to society by those who scream hypocrisy. [Post edited 29 Nov 2022 17:04]
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:07 - Nov 29 with 2081 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Couple of bottles of red wine a week, possibly a few beers as well. Got a couple of cold ones in the fridge for the match tonight.
Very rarely drink spirits nowadays. Still have a pre match pint with the lad before home games, any more than that and i'll be wanting a piss not long after kick off.
Gave up completely for a year in 2018, but i must confess i missed a glass or two of red after a while.
Struggled a bit during the lockdowns, probably due to boredom.
Missus SSB has hardly had a drink since getting through a large bottle of Pimms during a very messy lockdown Sunday afternoon so kudos to her for that.
In summary, i enjoy a glass or two of the red,in the evening so feel i have it under reasonable control. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:10 - Nov 29 with 2074 views | Meadowlark |
I don't drink any more.
Mind you, I don't drink any less. |  | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:20 - Nov 29 with 2042 views | GlasgowBlue |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:10 - Nov 29 by Meadowlark |
I don't drink any more.
Mind you, I don't drink any less. |
I never drink and drive. I find you spill most of it when you go around the corners. | |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:21 - Nov 29 with 2057 views | PhilTWTD |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:20 - Nov 29 by GlasgowBlue |
I never drink and drive. I find you spill most of it when you go around the corners. |
I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. |  | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:22 - Nov 29 with 2048 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:04 - Nov 29 by monytowbray |
I have the odd pint or half pint socially at a gig or pub social but I can take or leave it. I used to be a heavy partying drinker from 16 until my mid 20s. In 2014 i stopped for most the year as I realised I was wasting time/money and waking up with anxiety from black outs, plus the physical/mental side of a hangover which lasted days for me (mental side at least). My biggest issue with booze has always been self control - once 3 drinks are in I won’t stop until I’m too far gone.
I found myself single in 2016 after 7-8 years and booze snuck back in, alas I’d say 80% of the time I was enjoying it again as I was meeting new people and feeling a lot more like I could be myself (my previous relationship wasn’t particularly healthy or wanted by myself or my ex, so was like getting off a lead).
Fast forward to start of 2019 and a very grim breakup off the back of 2 1/2 years of mental/financial abuse and lies. I’d moved to London and was drinking similar levels to my early 20s again, but through the fall out of that I slipped into a very bad place. I would miss work and stay in bed for days on end doing nothing but drinking neat vodka until I passed out, wake up and carry on. Time lost any purpose over those periods. I think if I added them up over the year they’d have totalled at least a month, with the minimum session being 2-3 days It’s hard to look back and pinpoint where my mind was because it was quite overwhelming and painful. I think in part being drunk was an escape short term. I also think I wanted to die but I’m too much of a coward to actually commit, so I hoped I might “accidentally” drink myself to death. There was a lot going on overlapped which made the whole thing a mess.
End of 2019 I left a job I was miserable with whilst being quite jaded with my professional life. I was starting to realise I was a highly skilled worker making money for greasy pole climbers, bullies and morons with investment capital. Working in a generally younger industry you find a lot of gesture policies in the work place which seem like perks when you’re young and just climbed out of minimum wage jobs during a recession. But I don’t want yoga mornings, daily cake and paid-for p1ss ups which only enforced my personal issues with booze. I walked out one Monday afternoon at 3pm and went home, decided not to go back and within 2 days my contract was terminated with gardening leave. From there I decided to see if I could get by working for myself and pitched for work over new employment to my LinkedIn network.
It was around this time I woke up from yet another boozy mess of a week where I spent 3 days drunk on my mate’s sofa clearing out her leftover spirit cabinet, which had caused me to miss my second CBT appointment. I’d waited 11 months to be seen and felt like an idiot. So I had to ring my therapist and be really honest about my alcohol issues. I went back and there was a penny drop moment in my 3rd-4th session where reframing my behaviours and thoughts armed me with what I needed to sort my brain out. I woke from a 2 day session of neat Vodka and Monkey’s Finger Rum on December 8th 2019 - bar a couple of big celebratory nights out where I had maybe 4-5 drinks over the course of an entire night, I’ve not been remotely p1ssed since, let alone blackout drunk.
I guess I had to really sink to low and undeniably problematic drinking before I acknowledged that actually I’ve always had a bit of a problem with alcohol abuse.
It was also this time I noted that since sorting my health/weight in 2015 I was fatter than ever. I had an extra 5-6 inches vs now on my waist. It was like the booze haze lifted and I saw myself without beer Goggles. This inspired me to sort my health and strength out now in my 30s so I can have a better life longer term - happy in my own skin and able to enjoy myself. Alas this year a patch of existentialist depression has made me put an inch back on, but I live within a healthy remit generally and am already a week into the process of getting back on the wagon.
3 years later I’m earning my highest salary whilst working 1/3 less than before so that worked out. I have more time back to be productive or even be lazy if needed. Sex drive is better than ever. My house is full of plants and my garden looks lovely. I’m generally more certain about who I am and what I want in life than ever. I have little time for BS from others and won’t entertain such nonsense (be it through ignoring it or telling people to f**k off).
My only real vice these days is weed, but that’s more medicinal than anything. You can see from the above why I get so f**ked off with some of the anti-drug propaganda some on the board share before a thread about their favourite IPAs a week later though. I don’t judge others for drinking and I know plenty of folk who can handle their booze happily, but I’m not having my choices graded to determine my value to society by those who scream hypocrisy. [Post edited 29 Nov 2022 17:04]
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Thanks for sharing that and really glad you're in a good place now.
Parts of that post pretty much mirrored a much younger self. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:34 - Nov 29 with 2005 views | giant_stow |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:04 - Nov 29 by monytowbray |
I have the odd pint or half pint socially at a gig or pub social but I can take or leave it. I used to be a heavy partying drinker from 16 until my mid 20s. In 2014 i stopped for most the year as I realised I was wasting time/money and waking up with anxiety from black outs, plus the physical/mental side of a hangover which lasted days for me (mental side at least). My biggest issue with booze has always been self control - once 3 drinks are in I won’t stop until I’m too far gone.
I found myself single in 2016 after 7-8 years and booze snuck back in, alas I’d say 80% of the time I was enjoying it again as I was meeting new people and feeling a lot more like I could be myself (my previous relationship wasn’t particularly healthy or wanted by myself or my ex, so was like getting off a lead).
Fast forward to start of 2019 and a very grim breakup off the back of 2 1/2 years of mental/financial abuse and lies. I’d moved to London and was drinking similar levels to my early 20s again, but through the fall out of that I slipped into a very bad place. I would miss work and stay in bed for days on end doing nothing but drinking neat vodka until I passed out, wake up and carry on. Time lost any purpose over those periods. I think if I added them up over the year they’d have totalled at least a month, with the minimum session being 2-3 days It’s hard to look back and pinpoint where my mind was because it was quite overwhelming and painful. I think in part being drunk was an escape short term. I also think I wanted to die but I’m too much of a coward to actually commit, so I hoped I might “accidentally” drink myself to death. There was a lot going on overlapped which made the whole thing a mess.
End of 2019 I left a job I was miserable with whilst being quite jaded with my professional life. I was starting to realise I was a highly skilled worker making money for greasy pole climbers, bullies and morons with investment capital. Working in a generally younger industry you find a lot of gesture policies in the work place which seem like perks when you’re young and just climbed out of minimum wage jobs during a recession. But I don’t want yoga mornings, daily cake and paid-for p1ss ups which only enforced my personal issues with booze. I walked out one Monday afternoon at 3pm and went home, decided not to go back and within 2 days my contract was terminated with gardening leave. From there I decided to see if I could get by working for myself and pitched for work over new employment to my LinkedIn network.
It was around this time I woke up from yet another boozy mess of a week where I spent 3 days drunk on my mate’s sofa clearing out her leftover spirit cabinet, which had caused me to miss my second CBT appointment. I’d waited 11 months to be seen and felt like an idiot. So I had to ring my therapist and be really honest about my alcohol issues. I went back and there was a penny drop moment in my 3rd-4th session where reframing my behaviours and thoughts armed me with what I needed to sort my brain out. I woke from a 2 day session of neat Vodka and Monkey’s Finger Rum on December 8th 2019 - bar a couple of big celebratory nights out where I had maybe 4-5 drinks over the course of an entire night, I’ve not been remotely p1ssed since, let alone blackout drunk.
I guess I had to really sink to low and undeniably problematic drinking before I acknowledged that actually I’ve always had a bit of a problem with alcohol abuse.
It was also this time I noted that since sorting my health/weight in 2015 I was fatter than ever. I had an extra 5-6 inches vs now on my waist. It was like the booze haze lifted and I saw myself without beer Goggles. This inspired me to sort my health and strength out now in my 30s so I can have a better life longer term - happy in my own skin and able to enjoy myself. Alas this year a patch of existentialist depression has made me put an inch back on, but I live within a healthy remit generally and am already a week into the process of getting back on the wagon.
3 years later I’m earning my highest salary whilst working 1/3 less than before so that worked out. I have more time back to be productive or even be lazy if needed. Sex drive is better than ever. My house is full of plants and my garden looks lovely. I’m generally more certain about who I am and what I want in life than ever. I have little time for BS from others and won’t entertain such nonsense (be it through ignoring it or telling people to f**k off).
My only real vice these days is weed, but that’s more medicinal than anything. You can see from the above why I get so f**ked off with some of the anti-drug propaganda some on the board share before a thread about their favourite IPAs a week later though. I don’t judge others for drinking and I know plenty of folk who can handle their booze happily, but I’m not having my choices graded to determine my value to society by those who scream hypocrisy. [Post edited 29 Nov 2022 17:04]
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blimey, you've been through a lot. Glad things are better now. |  |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:38 - Nov 29 with 1999 views | hoppy |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 16:28 - Nov 29 by Oldsmoker |
Used to have a thing for Penny but love is fickle.
I glimpsed Michaela Strachan in Bristol City centre doing some shopping a while back.
I never knew she was a local girl.
I now brush my hair (what's left of it) and wear my best dentures when I go out nowadays.
You never know. |
How's your eyesight these days? Are you sure it wasn't Gordon Strachan? |  |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:49 - Nov 29 with 1974 views | factual_blue |
Mainly platonic. |  |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:56 - Nov 29 with 1951 views | Daninthecampo |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 14:52 - Nov 29 by jeera |
All about lifestyle isn't it.
There's a few saying they don't drink much due to having young children etc, which is reassuring as it would be worrying to read how someone is necking half a dozen pints at lunchtime then picking up the kids from school, taking them to an after-school event and sitting in the car park sipping from a paper bag whilst waiting for them to finish.
So, sure, if one leads a busy lifestyle with work and family life, alcohol isn't conducive to that.
Retired and living in the sunshine I think I'd be with you.
I haven't had alcohol of any sort for a few months but that was a deliberate check on myself which I will do from time to time if I think I'm over doing it. No need to wait until the January or October fads to be told to step away when it can be done any other time. |
Yes I agree
I'm only 46 so sadly not retired but no kids and i'm self employed working from home so can work when i want.
My lifestyle would be completely different if I had kids or had to go to the office 9-5 everyday
Spain has a very different drinking culture to the UK and regular drinking is conducive to this. |  | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:57 - Nov 29 with 1941 views | lowhouseblue |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 17:04 - Nov 29 by monytowbray |
I have the odd pint or half pint socially at a gig or pub social but I can take or leave it. I used to be a heavy partying drinker from 16 until my mid 20s. In 2014 i stopped for most the year as I realised I was wasting time/money and waking up with anxiety from black outs, plus the physical/mental side of a hangover which lasted days for me (mental side at least). My biggest issue with booze has always been self control - once 3 drinks are in I won’t stop until I’m too far gone.
I found myself single in 2016 after 7-8 years and booze snuck back in, alas I’d say 80% of the time I was enjoying it again as I was meeting new people and feeling a lot more like I could be myself (my previous relationship wasn’t particularly healthy or wanted by myself or my ex, so was like getting off a lead).
Fast forward to start of 2019 and a very grim breakup off the back of 2 1/2 years of mental/financial abuse and lies. I’d moved to London and was drinking similar levels to my early 20s again, but through the fall out of that I slipped into a very bad place. I would miss work and stay in bed for days on end doing nothing but drinking neat vodka until I passed out, wake up and carry on. Time lost any purpose over those periods. I think if I added them up over the year they’d have totalled at least a month, with the minimum session being 2-3 days It’s hard to look back and pinpoint where my mind was because it was quite overwhelming and painful. I think in part being drunk was an escape short term. I also think I wanted to die but I’m too much of a coward to actually commit, so I hoped I might “accidentally” drink myself to death. There was a lot going on overlapped which made the whole thing a mess.
End of 2019 I left a job I was miserable with whilst being quite jaded with my professional life. I was starting to realise I was a highly skilled worker making money for greasy pole climbers, bullies and morons with investment capital. Working in a generally younger industry you find a lot of gesture policies in the work place which seem like perks when you’re young and just climbed out of minimum wage jobs during a recession. But I don’t want yoga mornings, daily cake and paid-for p1ss ups which only enforced my personal issues with booze. I walked out one Monday afternoon at 3pm and went home, decided not to go back and within 2 days my contract was terminated with gardening leave. From there I decided to see if I could get by working for myself and pitched for work over new employment to my LinkedIn network.
It was around this time I woke up from yet another boozy mess of a week where I spent 3 days drunk on my mate’s sofa clearing out her leftover spirit cabinet, which had caused me to miss my second CBT appointment. I’d waited 11 months to be seen and felt like an idiot. So I had to ring my therapist and be really honest about my alcohol issues. I went back and there was a penny drop moment in my 3rd-4th session where reframing my behaviours and thoughts armed me with what I needed to sort my brain out. I woke from a 2 day session of neat Vodka and Monkey’s Finger Rum on December 8th 2019 - bar a couple of big celebratory nights out where I had maybe 4-5 drinks over the course of an entire night, I’ve not been remotely p1ssed since, let alone blackout drunk.
I guess I had to really sink to low and undeniably problematic drinking before I acknowledged that actually I’ve always had a bit of a problem with alcohol abuse.
It was also this time I noted that since sorting my health/weight in 2015 I was fatter than ever. I had an extra 5-6 inches vs now on my waist. It was like the booze haze lifted and I saw myself without beer Goggles. This inspired me to sort my health and strength out now in my 30s so I can have a better life longer term - happy in my own skin and able to enjoy myself. Alas this year a patch of existentialist depression has made me put an inch back on, but I live within a healthy remit generally and am already a week into the process of getting back on the wagon.
3 years later I’m earning my highest salary whilst working 1/3 less than before so that worked out. I have more time back to be productive or even be lazy if needed. Sex drive is better than ever. My house is full of plants and my garden looks lovely. I’m generally more certain about who I am and what I want in life than ever. I have little time for BS from others and won’t entertain such nonsense (be it through ignoring it or telling people to f**k off).
My only real vice these days is weed, but that’s more medicinal than anything. You can see from the above why I get so f**ked off with some of the anti-drug propaganda some on the board share before a thread about their favourite IPAs a week later though. I don’t judge others for drinking and I know plenty of folk who can handle their booze happily, but I’m not having my choices graded to determine my value to society by those who scream hypocrisy. [Post edited 29 Nov 2022 17:04]
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good, honest post. thanks for sharing. |  |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 18:51 - Nov 29 with 1900 views | Hogger |
Lord have mercy, reading all the answers to this is making me feel out of sync. Drink wine and or beer with the missus every night except Monday at home before dinner and go out for a good few twice a week. I am 60 in a fortnight so hard to change now. Did stop smoking and snaffling when i was 44... any brownie p-oints for that? | | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 18:54 - Nov 29 with 1889 views | jeera |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 18:51 - Nov 29 by Hogger |
Lord have mercy, reading all the answers to this is making me feel out of sync. Drink wine and or beer with the missus every night except Monday at home before dinner and go out for a good few twice a week. I am 60 in a fortnight so hard to change now. Did stop smoking and snaffling when i was 44... any brownie p-oints for that? |
Live as you enjoy fella.
A lot of the replies so far are half your age so they have plenty of time to turn to drink as yet!
I love a bottle of red. |  |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 18:58 - Nov 29 with 1885 views | bazza |
On the rocks. |  | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 11:22 - Jan 22 with 922 views | RobTheMonk |
Bit of a thread revival, but thought I'd revisit.
Went to a friends wedding in September and went a bit bonkers on the booze culminating in a horrific hangover. I'd slipped back into old ways a little bit in that I don't go out that often, but when I did I was going hell-for-leather on the booze.
I'd also been having a 4 pack of Guinness on a Friday night - not much I know, but it was enough for me to feel a bit rough.
Well now I'm on 136 days of no booze and not missing it one bit! | | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 14:26 - Jan 22 with 839 views | Oldsmoker |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 11:22 - Jan 22 by RobTheMonk |
Bit of a thread revival, but thought I'd revisit.
Went to a friends wedding in September and went a bit bonkers on the booze culminating in a horrific hangover. I'd slipped back into old ways a little bit in that I don't go out that often, but when I did I was going hell-for-leather on the booze.
I'd also been having a 4 pack of Guinness on a Friday night - not much I know, but it was enough for me to feel a bit rough.
Well now I'm on 136 days of no booze and not missing it one bit! |
Morrisons had an offer on Boddingtons Draught bitter.
18 x 440ml cans for £11 with the More card.
I bought 4 packs (72 cans) just B4 Xmas.
I placed all 4 side-by-side on their ends next to the sofa as I was saving them for the holibobs.
I put my table lamp on the stack and forgot they were there.
The beer is still untouched and will remain so until summer or until I find a small side table.
Xmas was wine, gin, tonic,lemons.
Last week the checkout lady said "So you're not bothering with dry January then?"
I'd forgotten all about it. |  |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 14:32 - Jan 22 with 822 views | BiGDonnie |
Sh***************t, I'm four beers deep already. |  |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 14:42 - Jan 22 with 780 views | Churchman |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 11:22 - Jan 22 by RobTheMonk |
Bit of a thread revival, but thought I'd revisit.
Went to a friends wedding in September and went a bit bonkers on the booze culminating in a horrific hangover. I'd slipped back into old ways a little bit in that I don't go out that often, but when I did I was going hell-for-leather on the booze.
I'd also been having a 4 pack of Guinness on a Friday night - not much I know, but it was enough for me to feel a bit rough.
Well now I'm on 136 days of no booze and not missing it one bit! |
I still love a drink. Beer, wine, scotch, port - get in! Off out for a few beers in a bit and away in Finland next week where beer and a bit of wine will feature heavily.
However, since Mrs has had to cut down alcohol to the odd glass of wine once or twice a week, I won’t drink at home unless she does. That wouldn’t be fair. So the alcohol intake overall is a lot less than it was a year or two ago. If I stay at the Suffolk house (eg for the football) I won’t drink alone there any more than I do here if I’m on my own.
So do I drink less than before? Markedly yes. Do I still drink too much? Very yes. Could I give up altogether? Yes - I don’t have an addictive personality. But I won’t unless I have to. Hell, I’ve got to enjoy one of the vices! |  | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 14:44 - Jan 22 with 771 views | BlueySwede |
I am 46..and I still am an above average drinker, I would say.
This might sound like a bad excuse, but my partner is quite a social person, outgoing, and enjoys dinners with friends and other social gatherings. I, on the other hand, am rather shy and have fairly low self-esteem. Alcohol helps me loosen up a bit and feel more comfortable. I would like to cut back on drinking, and of course, I don't drink as much as I did in my younger years, but quitting entirely or sticking to just ONE beer is simply not an option for me. At least not right now. | | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 14:49 - Jan 22 with 730 views | wkj |
Christmas drinks, that's about it. Might pop into the local during the summer if it is a belter, but I really don't bother any more. |  |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 14:50 - Jan 22 with 727 views | blueasfook |
Was a big binge drinker up until my mid 30s I would say. Then like yourself found the hangovers lingered longer and longer so knocked it in the head. Now I have an occasional drink. Drink more when I go on holiday or say a day out in London or something but even then not excessively. Also, used to smoke a lot of the old waccy baccy and knocked that in the head too. Used to think i couldn't live without it but now the thought of smoking a doobie makes me think "uugggh". |  |
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| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 15:31 - Jan 22 with 625 views | Clapham_Junction |
Around age 15 I decided I wasn't going to touch alcohol. Friends had started drinking and the way it made them behave made me decide it wasn't for me. I also couldn't see the attraction of drinking given that every alcoholic drink I'd had a sip of (with the exception of Baileys) tasted disgusting.
When they find out I'm teetotal, people often ask if I've ever been tempted, but absolutely not. I've never felt like I'm missing out - more the opposite having seen the amount of damage friends have done to themselves and their relationships because of drinking.
I find it incredibly sad that quite a few people feel they need to get drunk (or use something else) to have a good time. |  | | |
| What's your relationship with alcohol these days? on 15:42 - Jan 22 with 579 views | Reus30 |
Don't really drink ever. I don't really enjoy home drinking.
Unless of course the intention is to get so drunk out of my nut that I can forget my problems for an evening. Only do that maybe once or twice a week maybe. |  | | |
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