To think a bottle of wine a week isn't too awful?

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Background: previously seriously alcoholic parents who have now gone teetotal.

I've never really been a drinker, possibly due to the background above.

But recently I have been getting another a week of the Aldi Australian shiraz wine because my mil bought me some about a month ago and I love the taste of it. So every Monday I have been buying a bottle of it during the weekly shop.

I have a glass every other night or so and my parter has some too. Sometime there is some left at the end of the week.

When I mentioned this to my dm she expressed concern for my 'increased drinking levels'.

It's hard for me to gauge what is normal, and I imagine it is for my dm and df too.

Would you be concerned about this amount of alcohol consumed every week for about a month?

It's absolutely fine nothing to worry about

No. Not at all.

Yanbu

A bottle a week, sometimes not finished, between two of you?

Not even the slightest tiniest bit of concern here. I doubt it's even enough to ever put you above the drink drive levels.

No. I really really wouldn't.

No i drink a lot more. That seems absolutely fine.

I have a bottle at the weekend (fri/sat eve), but often drink a bottle during the week. Not always and never everyday day (I'm sure I read somewhere you need two days off a week from drinking?). Depends what kind of week it is!
Others would probably say that is a lot.

No. A bottle a week is fine. If you find yourself drinking a bottle a night by yourself then you may have a problem.

Absolutely fine. I would say any more than 2 glasses every night would be a tad too much, but I do that sometimes so who am I to judge.

Absolutely not! I hardly drink, but this is mostly because I don't like the taste of a lot of things. That being said my partner and I can easily go through a bottle a week of something we do like when the mood takes us.
A bottle a night would concern me, but certainly not one a week that is occasionally shared between two.

That's about 9 units, if you drink the bottle yourself. 5 fewer than recommended maximum weekly amount. I really really wouldn't worry.

You really have nothing to worry about

God no, the recommended limits are 14 a week for a woman, there is ten in a bottle of wine and uou don't even always drink it all. Very low alcohol consumption in my view. If I fancy it I can do a bottle In a night and I don't think anyone would considered I'm an alcoholic or have a problem with booze.

ONE bottle in a week?? That's nothing. Don't let your mother project her issues in you. Tell her to mind her own damn affairs.

Not a concern at all. I guess your DM is worried about you increasing your drinking (have I got it right that she previously had a problem?) but if you are going from nothing to a couple of glasses a week, it's fine.

If you suddenly ramp up to a bottle a night, it's time to worry, but at the level you are at, it probably does you more good than harm.

I don't drink at all but one bottle a week shared between 2 adults seems perfectly fine. Well within the 14 units a week recommendation.

Absolutely fine. Understandable for your mother to be a bit overly anxious when it comes to your drinking though. She probably frets about you inheriting her (and your father's) former drinking habits.

It's clear that your mum has no idea about what normal drinking is and is very anxious in case you inherit the alcoholic gene.

A bottle of wine is approx 9 units so no problem.

Well within guidelines.

You are not drinking enough. Get some more

I have that on a Friday night!

You are not drinking enough. Get some more

Why would you say that to someone who has alcoholic parents?

If it makes you uneasy you could always not drink 1 week/ month.

I get struggling to gauge normal drinking levels as my dad was an alcoholic. Unsurprisingly, I don't really drink.

But 1 bottle/ week- absolutely fine in my book.