Why do you wine?

[Fuckitletshavevino]

It seems to be the norm now to have a bottle of wine after a hard day. However many nights a week. But what was your trigger for this?

Mine started with depression about 2 years ago. But since then stress.

Now it’s a habit to go get a bottle every few days. I am still stressed but it’s an excuse.

I like the taste of wine, either Chardonnay or incredibly sweet stuff, but as the child of an alcoholic I say hell no and very rarely drink anything as I'm terrified I could end up like him.

Also to the PP that said we shouldn't judge? Well, actually I do because his drinking completely ruined my childhood and teens and he never actually acknowledged that so all I hear is the same sort of denial.

Obviously, a glass/ night isn't doing any harm, but needing to drink implies dependency.

Also, the fact you can stop drinking for a week/ a month doesn't actually mean you don't have an issue. It just means it's not incredibly severe.

packofshunts I’m not sure if it’s a sugar level thing. Alcohol just makes me gag if I’ve eaten

Kids...

Can’t drink wine now I’m afraid. Used to love the stuff and drink regularly for pleasure and in company. Too ill now. Dh and I used to drink wine together. Since I stopped, my dh became a problem whisky drinker. I think it’s to cope with my disability and his work stress. He’s changed jobs internally and also managed to cut down from almost 2 bottles a week to around half. Not the cheap stuff btw. He was spending around 2.5k a year when drinking at his peak. That’s a holiday.

I had slipped into a bottle of wine a night habit. I just loved feeling like I was having a ‘grown up’ drink and it felt like a reward and something to de stress.

I realise I have a problem so I’ve started drinking Becks Blue insted during the week. It still tastes like a grown up drink and a bit different as I drink it out of the bottle, but my mornings are a lot lot more pleasant and productive now.

I don't drink wine at all coz I don't like it. I do however like some other things like dark run, gin and though I don't drink it any other time I become quite partial to a Bailey's coffee and cheeky vimto over the festive season. I only drink at parties/occasions but am from a huge family so this is about 1/2 times a month. Over Christmas I probably have something to drink (often a baileys coffee) about three times a week.

I dont think I drink a lot really, found it very easy to go without during my pregnancies and for the first months after the birth. I could stop all together but don't want to as I get enjoyment out of the times I do drink

From the other side ..... if I could "just" drink a bottle of wine a night, I might not be in AA. I didn't get seriously drunk until I was 29, largely because I didn't like the taste or the feeling of being out of control. I went through university and training to be an accountant in the City, one Diet Coke after work was enough. Then life events meant that I started to use alcohol as a means of escaping, if only for brief periods. Alcoholism is a progressive illness - mine escalated rapidly. I've been in AA for over nine years and haven't any desire to drink - but, like a lot of alcoholics, I feel a twinge of something between curiosity and envy when people say they have a glass a night. One glass is too many for me, and I know that.

OP, just monitor yourself if you think you might have a problem. Some people I know are heavy drinkers but don't drink alcoholically and there's a difference.

Since when was “wine” a verb?

SuburbanRhonda A verb is describing an action or occurance. Drinking wine is an action, it is also an occurance therefore the title of my post is very much in form with that. Anything else you would like to “try” and have a dig at? Nope? Move along then!

I did it again last night. Feeling grumpy. It got dark so early, bored at work and I had a crappy run in the evening. Got home - told myself I'd have a glass as a treat because it's nearly the weekend. Bottle gone in an hour and a half. I feel fine today, as normal but feel terrible in myself. It's self abuse really. I binge eat too.

You don’t get to say who posts on a thread, OP.

“To drink wine” is only an action because it includes the word “drink”, which is a verb. There is no such verb “to wine”.

You’re welcome.

I thought the title was a play on words, like ‘why do you whine?’

As in that old chestnut
What’s an Essex girl’s favourite wine?
I want to go to Lakeside

One thing that is standing out to me about those that are drinking a lot in the evening, is no one driving next day?
There's a lot of heavy consumption going on with some people and if I had drunk the same amount I would be fearing my licence never mind my liver!

SuburbanRhonda No but I do get to decide to stick up to bullies like you who have nothing better to do than pick on people because you think it makes you look good when actually it makes you look like a c u next Tuesday.

MumsGoneToPieland You are right it is a play on words

Undercoverbanana Aww just stay strong tonight if you can x

1 bottle most nights, more on the weekend. Don't get hangovers, have been to AA before, have been to counselling before, can stop occasionally for a few days.

It seems to be the norm now to have a bottle of wine after a hard day. However many nights a week

It really is not the norm to have a bottle of wine every night. I'm a biog drinker and I don't do that at all.

SuburbanRhonda No but I do get to decide to stick up to bullies like you who have nothing better to do than pick on people because you think it makes you look good when actually it makes you look like a c u next Tuesday.

If you think anyone is bullying you on here, please report to MNHQ.

Rhonda....really if you have nothing productive to add to the thread why are you even here

Surely it is not normal to drink a bottle of wine a night!

I love my wine, but I am very picky about wine and usually stick to dry reds, champagne or champagne-style sparkling as they most appeal to my taste. I don't like high alcohol wines and can't abide spirits and find most white wines too sweet for me (I really don't like sweet things). I don't drink to get pissed, and find running to be a much better stress buster or mood lifter.

Wine is delicious and not all regular drinkers of it do it to get pissed or use it as a crutch.

It’s not the norm for me! I only really have a drink on non-work nights or if I go out midweek (rare as have to get up early and be ‘with it’ at work). I only have one close friend who subscribed to that ‘wine o clock’ thing. Obviously I don’t know what my wider circle’s drinking habits are but if you work, who wants to get up feeling even slightly hungover every day?

I love red wine and there are certain foods just don't taste the same without it - pizza quiche cheese board etc..
I actually cried when I was pregnant and tried non alcoholic red wine - it was so revolting.
If anyone could reproduce the taste of an excellent Malbec or Pinot noir without the alcohol I wouldn't need to drink the real stuff :)

I don't. At least not at the moment. I am fortunate in that I've always been a 'happy drinker' - I only really feel like drinking when I'm up, not when I'm down.

However, I have a faulty off-switch when it comes to wine. I can have a pint of beer and happily stop, but once I've had half a glass of wine I want to drink the whole bottle. I think I have a mild intolerance to it though - it makes me flush a lot, often gives me a bit of acid reflux and messes with my sleep. That's why I've given up booze for the moment (and possibly permanently) .

Agree a bottle of wine per person every night is over double the recommended units/week and verging on alcohol dependency.
I usually have at least 2 alcohol free days a week and if we're on wine it's a bottle between us and we often don't finish it if having a G&T first.

Oh plus my favourite drink was always red wine, but since having the dc even red wine in cooking gives me reflux to the point of making me sick!