To drink three bottles of wine a week?

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Just that. What do you drink?

@SimulationTheorist I know it’s a typo but ‘a nice M&S poo’ made me giggle!

You sound like you have an alcohol problem. You like the drunk feeling and need it to relax. How do you take care of two small children in that state. They probably notice that you are more fun and happy over weekends. I would seriously take a good look at what you're doing.

Sounds like a lot to me. I would cut down. I must be really boring as I probably have a small mojito can once a month if that.

One bottle a week if that.

I am like you OP, get through 3 bottles a week and know deep down I should cut it back.
However, over the past 10 years I have stopped smoking, gave up eating copious amounts of chocolate, stopped eating delicious crap food and took up exercise.
Take away my wine and what pleasure would there be left in my life? (That is tongue in cheek for those who do not recogise it).
I can stop, and have for a week or two at a time, but just feel that a glass or two of wine when I fancy it is not too much to ask.

I can easily have a bottle of wine a night

An example yesterday I went to my local only for a couple of hours and I had three large wines (which I think is a bottle ?)

But lots of women I know had been there all day snd were there hours after I left and they already had had bottles!!

It seems the norm where I live (London cusp ) most people I know consume ten times the weekly recommended unit guide in a few hours in a bar/rugby club! That’s not to mention the other six days of the week! Please don’t think I’m trying to ‘normalise’ drinking this much but if the OP is having three bottles a week then I don’t think she has a ‘problem’

For me, also as a parent with two young DC, it would be too much. I have very low tolerance these days and both DC are poor sleepers, so drinking too much would be a very bad idea. I'm also finding that I just can't handle the hangovers these days (I'm about to turn 40) they're awful! I used to drink a lot more pre children. I've lost weight and drinking less has definitely helped with that.

Every so often I'll have a night out or a wedding to go to and will drink a fair bit...but it absolutely slays me! Having to accept my big drinking days may be over, but I gave it a damn good run while I could

Can't get over "nice M&S poo"

That seems like quite a lot of alcohol. And also at over 600 calories a bottle, you're drinking the equivalent of around an entire extra day's worth of calories every week.

How much do I drink? None. One bottle of wine bought from time to time to do some cooking. That’s it.

I think that if you are asking this question, it’s because deep down you know it’s probably too much.

@SimulationTheorist
😂 who doesn’t like a nice M & S poo

Secret it’s not because people around you do much worse that it’s ok for the OP to drink as much as she does.

I mean if you were living around people who smoke a paquet of cigarettes a day, would you tell the OP it’s ok to smoke ‘because everybody seem to do that anyway’?

I don't drink at all, but that's because I'm a recovering alcoholic in AA. If I could have stuck to three bottles a week (or even one bottle a day) I wouldn't have taken the AA route 11 years ago. Maybe my thinking is distorted but it doesn't sound bad at all.

OP, this is MN. Anything more than a glass of wine (which you didn't finish) at Christmas leaves you on the waiting list for AA.

I drink nothing anymore. As per pp it got out of hand so I had to stop.

It is masses to me. I don't drink at all - couldn't handle the hangovers, plus it makes my mental health awful.
I used to get aching shoulders and knee joints after a drink- anyone else get this?

Its not that bad over an entire weekend whats the big deal?..i dont drink at all&havent for years-g&t if im out&about-very seldom unfortunately(massive binge drinker in my youth)but that amount is easily done if you're enjoying it&kicking back..as long as you could envisage periods of no drinking&go weekends without surely as a responsible adult you can please yourself!Enjoy

I would be careful OP. I'm not judging as there are weeks where I drink more than that. But 2 bottles at the weekend can easily start to become 3,4,5 and so on. And then it will creep into the weekdays too.

I too have an alcoholic parent, and it's very very easy to slip into habits revolving alcohol, you have seen growing up.

I think I'm more susceptible to being an alcoholic due to my parent, so if I catch myself starting to drink too much, I cut right back for a while.

I would start to cut back a bit just to make sure you actually can do it, and if you struggle to cope without alcohol, then you know you have a problem.

Just go 30 days without any alcohol at all - no excuses for special events etc. If you can’t do it you may have a problem...

I don’t drink very much at all these days though did when I was younger. I’ve noticed a lot of my friends don’t bother now but wine o’clock was quite prolific when the DC were younger .

Alcohol has a unique status as a drug and is so socially acceptable that in some circles you get crap for not drinking which is pretty fucked up.

My Brother is without doubt an alcoholic and it worries me that I have a genetic predisposition to it so that is a part of my reason for giving it a wide berth these days. I’ve noticed my Dad has cut right down as well. Been interesting to see in DD’s social group they don’t really bother with it, I think a fair few have seen their parents be really quite dependent on it and think no thanks.

1. One on Friday one on Saturday. Although sometimes I don’t bother with the Friday one

I have two small glasses of wine four to five times a week; an aperitif and a glass of red. We only have the small wine glasses so we know exactly what we are drinking and I have two consecutive nights off. I love wine and food and it is one of my great pleasures in life. I will be seventy this year and have no intention of stopping. 😊

@ComeandDance - oh I totally agree hence why I said that I wasn’t trying to ‘normalise’ it!

However ‘if’ OP was to have a major problem surely she’d be drinking MUCH more than three bottles a week? I just don’t want people to ‘scare monger’ her which lots of people seem to do on here!!

@missclimpson - you sound FABULOUS.

That would be a lot for me, I wouldn't be able to function, but it's your life, so only you can decide what's a lot to you really 🤷‍♀️ You're an adult. Make your own decisions.