My DH drinks a bottle of wine every night.
Very, very occasionally he will have another glass out of another bottle, or he will have a can of gin and tonic on a hot night in the summer.
He has been drinking like this for 20/30 years. When could you expect to see a physical consequence for it ?
He goes to the gym, his cholesterol is fine. I just don’t get how he is so well considering what he drinks.
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Bottle of wine a night
KangarooKenny · 02/07/2022 07:39
Ohthatsexciting · 02/07/2022 07:41
What on earth is his mental health like?
because no one in a good frame of mind drinks like this
KangarooKenny · 02/07/2022 07:43
He is 60 now. He’s been drinking all his adult life, but the bottle of wine ever night has been going on for 20/30 years.
He just keeps saying that he’s healthy, and his cholesterol shows he is.
Westfacing · 02/07/2022 07:53
You don't need to have mental health problems to drink a bottle of wine a day - many people have a couple of glasses at lunch then a couple with dinner, that's easily a bottle.
SaintHelena · 02/07/2022 08:47
Cancer - much higher risk if you drink - get a full blood test , liver test etc perhaps privately - if it flags up something he is more likely to change.
Westfacing · 02/07/2022 07:53
You don't need to have mental health problems to drink a bottle of wine a day - many people have a couple of glasses at lunch then a couple with dinner, that's easily a bottle.
pointythings · 03/07/2022 16:28
The human liver is a wonderful thing - it carries on and on and on, showing no sydmptoms and nothing on tests.
Until the day that it doesn't, and then it fully craps out on you and it's too late.
Drinking like that will also be reducing/negating the effectiveness of his antidepressants.
But you can't change him, only he can. It's up to you to decide how you want to live the rest of your life - like this, with him, or by yourself, in freedom. My alcohol addicted husband died 12 days before the nisi was pronounced. I'm single now and loving it.
Ohthatsexciting · 02/07/2022 07:41
What on earth is his mental health like?
because no one in a good frame of mind drinks like this
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Fancydancer1934 · 03/07/2022 16:35
Oh look at you Sigmund Freud
Ohthatsexciting · 02/07/2022 07:41
What on earth is his mental health like?
because no one in a good frame of mind drinks like this
Jacopo · 03/07/2022 16:41
What a truly idiotic response, Fancydancer.
Fancydancer1934 · 03/07/2022 16:35
Oh look at you Sigmund Freud
Ohthatsexciting · 02/07/2022 07:41
What on earth is his mental health like?
because no one in a good frame of mind drinks like this
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