Both my parent drank while I was growing up (not excessively, just at parties or events etc)
My mum woild have a glass of wine in the evenings and at the weekend my dad would have a drink or 2. This was was always normal to me and I didn't think nothing of it
Over the last few years I noticed my mother's drinking had become more frequent and she would be drinking more each night (I think this started during lock down) I mentioned it to her once, and she admitted she was drinking too much and she cut down. She would have 1 or 2 drinks and be able to not need anymore.
It then starred to increase again slowly. I know she is able to go days and days without having one, but if she did have 1, it would always lead to more.
We had a family event where she has way to much and fell over. I went absolutely crazy at her as I was completely fed up and embarrassed by it. She was mortified by it and completely stopped drinking for ages. She's been out a few times with drinks etc, and had a couple (I ask my dad when he's out with her, as we talk about this a lot and he's been keeping and eye)
I noticed there was a bottle of wine in the rack last week, and I questioned my dad about it, he didn't think she'd been drinking and said it had been there a whole (from when they had frindms over) she was out at the weekemd and had a few drinks. She tends to stick to vodka when she's out now.
Sometimes when I speak to her I get paranoid that I drink she's drink. When she's drinking wine I can 100% tell because she slurs her world, and I can't say I've noticed her doing tjsr, but I feel like she can have possibly had a few drinks
She doesn't hide the fact that she has a drink when out etc, but my mims goes into overdrive.
Is this an alcoholic? Or alcohol dependent? I'm really struggling to deal with this as her nothing was a big alcoholic, and this caused s major family issues. My mum knows how I feel about this situation, any advice would be greatly appreciated.