(First, I never drink until I pass out, vomit or even get drunk.)
I wasn’t speaking of you personally. The fact remains that the great majority of people do not drink plain juices or sodas the way many people imbibe alcohol. For reasons unknown, some will repeatedly drink until they are so drunk that they can’t walk or function. I find it a perplexing question, one that can’t be answered by anyone. Honestly, your intake of liquids seems to be outside of the ordinary for most people. I happen to like orange juice, but I would hardly drink a half gallon of it in one sitting. I also find it hard to believe that one person would drink and entire gallon of lemonade while working outside. Again, that behaviour seems to be outside of the ordinary for most people. I’m 6’ 1" and 215 pounds and couldn’t do it after working in the yard.(First, I never drink until I pass out, vomit or even get drunk.)
But I can drink a case of soda as fast as someone might drink a case of beer.
And if I liked orange juice, I could drink half a gallon. I know I have had a gallon of lemonade, especially if I was working outside.
I can anwer your question. Peer Pressure. Yep, dumb reason, but most stupid actions have dumb reasons behind them. Sometimes it is a competiton of who can drink the most, then it hits you all at once.
I’m not disagreeing with you but I think it may go deeper than that. I have seen people go after alcohol the way kids go after candy. I was at a party once where a guy was standing in the kitchen gulping beer and taking shots one after another. Later, he was throwing up in the parking lot and his wife took him home. Someone said “he does that all the time,” and this guy was just a regular Joe who you would never think twice about.
You must be a sick boy!It’s my nightly medicine
Of course you weren’t speaking to me personally. But if it wasn’t personal, why would you consider my answer defensive.
This is really hard for me, because I do like wine especially socially.I’m with you a bit on this one. I didn’t even start drinking 'til I was 40 (10 years back) and joined a rowdy girls bookclub where wine flowed. Over a couple of years I became dependent on wine every night (but not to the point that I couldn’t do my duties with the house and teen kids). I even debated whether to call myself alcoholic.
When I say “passion” I mean it in a very different sense from dependence, verging on alcoholism. It’s not the alcohol itself I enjoy (other than perhaps the slight relaxing effect it may have), but I enjoy wine as a hobby. I have a cellar, belong to a few wine-groups, attend and host organised tastings, spend to many hours on the internet researching the topic and posting on forums, etc.I’m with you a bit on this one. I didn’t even start drinking 'til I was 40 (10 years back) and joined a rowdy girls bookclub where wine flowed. Over a couple of years I became dependent on wine every night (but not to the point that I couldn’t do my duties with the house and teen kids). I even debated whether to call myself alcoholic.
Thankfully now, I use active discipline to drink in a sensible way but as with you, I could easily lose myself in fine wine ‘appreciation’. It is such a pleasurable passtime!
Fair enough. I married into an Italian family that matches wine with their meals etc and wine is very much a staple along with good food so yes I think I know what you mean. I have misinterpreted where you’ve said you had to be “mindful of remaining detached from it” as implying potential to over indulge. Apologies.
I mean detached in the spiritual sense…as in not letting worldly matters distract us from God. It’s more that I tend to spend too much time focussed on it than over-indulging, and I know it’s not spiritually healthy to be so obsessed with anything - whether that’s wine, another hobby, football, vampire-fiction, etc.Fair enough. I married into an Italian family that matches wine with their meals etc and wine is very much a staple along with good food so yes I think I know what you mean. I have misinterpreted where you’ve said you had to be “mindful of remaining detached from it” as implying potential to over indulge. Apologies.
I would say that this guy is an alcoholic, no doubt about it.I’m not disagreeing with you but I think it may go deeper than that. I have seen people go after alcohol the way kids go after candy. I was at a party once where a guy was standing in the kitchen gulping beer and taking shots one after another. Later, he was throwing up in the parking lot and his wife took him home. Someone said “he does that all the time,” and this guy was just a regular Joe who you would never think twice about.
No, it is not peer pressure, it is an alcoholistic behaviour and a sign that the disease has started to develop.
Do you get a head ache with both white and red? Some people can tolerate white better.I enjoy alcohol, but I no longer tolerate it very well. I get a headache in the middle of my first glass of wine, or mixed drink. I can drink beer without getting a headache, but beer is too filling and doesn’t go well with food. I keep trying, hoping it will have changed, but no. I think I’m going to have to give it up for good.