BF2S Forums Domestic Dispute Last Night At Our House

Of course, regular drinking.  Before getting married, I used to drink on the weekends with my friends, mostly beer and champagne.  I used to drink a lot on Fridays and Saturdays nights, and that never led to alcoholism.  It was social drinking.  Now, I only drink Coke.

Regular drinking.
Ive seen too many people start with a glass of wine with dinner to a glass after. Prity soon they get used to the feeling of being full of food and tired with the lift of the booze to lift them out of it. Then you keep going. Once you are over 3 glasses of wine you have to keep going or a hangover kicks in within an hour or so. I know couples who don't talk to each other, then get some wine in and they are all over each other. Prity soon they need the booze to make their relationship work. sad really.

I personally believe alcoholism isn't as effected by the options as much if you were allowed alcohol when you were younger (early teens sometimes younger).
I live in an Italian style family and I was introduced early to wine, I'm now 16 and alcohol doesn't interest me, my mates on the other hand crave to go out drinking. Though I might be the exception not the rule. I believe people are attracted to what you can't have, and if you were told your not allowed a beer or similar till your 18 (or 21 depending on where you live), your gonna try and break that by sneaking out with ya friends and go drinking with them, which could lead to dangerous situations, while if you with your family when you drank, you would be looked after more and it also stops you from over drinking and getting alcohol poisoning etc. If you  go drinking with your friends your gonna go out regularly and binge, and if that continues your gonna get an alcohol dependence.

Last edited by Plisken (2007-06-06 04:57:41)

Daily drinking. You (the person in the situation, that is) will start off drinking while watching TV or playing a rousing session of BF2, and eventually you will begin to mentally equate use of the TV or playing BF2 with drinking. That leads to equating more things to drinking, as you drink more and more while doing everyday tasks.

Ty wrote:

I'll side with you on this one I think. Alcoholism is relying on alcohol, not necessarily drinking a lot of it in one go.

True, but, just for the sake of argument, couldn't you say that regularly binging on weekends is a reliance on alcohol?

Last edited by RedTwizzler (2007-06-06 04:59:12)

The latter is true, absolutely.  I go out Friday and Saturday and those are my nights to get well and truly trolleyed, but I can confidently say that I would never become an alcoholic because of it.  However I never drink in the home during the week, it just doesn't appeal to me.

I believe that the vast majority of alcoholism comes from people regularly drinking in the home.

I'm everyday drinker, but almost never get drunk.

Before you know it alcoholism is you. Be careful.

I don't like to drink alone. But when I'm out with friends, it's like all we do. I guess the problem starts when you're home alone watching tv and instead of coke you drink vodka.

from what i understand alcoholics are different physiologically than non-alcoholics from a genetic point of view.  they react differently to alcohol and develop a dependence on it which is different than normal people.

you can be a sober and still be an alcoholic because when you take that drink you'll quickly lose yourself in the alcohol.  at the same time you can be a problem drinker who is not an alcoholic.

CameronPoe wrote:

Following a disagreement in the house last night I'd like to put this to the general populace:

I contend that casually drinking alcohol (invariably wine) in small-ish quantities in the home over meals/in front of the TV leads to a greater risk of developing alcoholism than going on the batter on a Friday or Saturday night, perhaps drinking as many as 15 pints of beer.

Do you agree or disagree? Which carries the higher risk of leading to alcoholism?

Wow, great idea for a post.

I voted for Binge Drinking, but I'm really torn between the two.

I grew up with both parents drinking on a daily basis. Not a "casual drink on the weekends, on the weekends they ramped it up though.

I'm going to have to put a little more thought into this subject.

Regular drinking makes your body become more used to alcohol, it means you have alcohol in your system nearly the whole time, thus forms a dependency. Seems quite simple to me.

One small glass of red wine is probably not going to form a habit, depending on the individual. Some people are likely more prone to developing a habit than others.