Less likely to include tea total friend?

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Would you be less likely to include a tea total friend on nights out etc? Just wondering if they are seen as boring or if it is less of a stigma these days.

Do you mean teetotal? of course is invite then, a friend is a friend.

I’d definitely invite my tee-total friends! To be honest, drunk people can be pretty boring...

Surely a friend is a friend whether they drink or not.

I’m tea total and I always get invited out...and I go! I think I’m good fun(If I must say so myself) 🤣, I don’t need or like alcohol.

A number of my friends are teetotal (or not drinking for certain periods of time) for various reasons. It certainly isn't an issue for me - we have just as much fun.

tee total 🙈🤣

Teetotal...

But, heck, don't be so miserable! Crikey. Who needs alcohol to have a good time? People who need alcohol to have a good time. Those people are clearly boring, otherwise they don't need alcohol.

Invite as many teetotallers as possible. At least they will all get home safely, make sensible decisions and you know that they are not going to embarrass themselvess or you or need looking after.

I don't think it has a stigma.
Plenty of people don't drink for all sorts of reasons.

I always invite tee total friends but find that they tend to decline invitations unless it’s to a meal.

Sorry, for the misspelling. 😩

Just wondering if you have a friend / couple over for a bottle of wine but they don't drink would you still bother?

Why would you think that? Why would you think that someone who drinks alcohol is more worthy of an invitation than someone who's teetotal?

No, just worry it comes across as boring to come people. 😔

I don't personally know any teetotal people, but if one of my friends came out as one, they would still be included. We wouldn't judge them for it.

Has someone left you out OP?

I don't drink so I'd be more likely to invite them. I have been left out of social things because I don't drink before though

I’m tee total and get invited places. I sometimes go sometimes not because I enjoy hibernating with a book in winter 😂

I also invite other teetotal friends, drunk people are dickheads mostly

I don't know any teetotallers, but there's usually at least 2 driving on nights out - so no different.

A couple of our friends are teetotal. They get invited to everything (by us and by other members of the friendship group).

I'd be more worried that they might be bored by us as the evening wears on, rather than vice versa!

Yes I would have all my friends over, unless I thought that a non drinking friend was uncomfortable around alcohol.
Friends get pregnant, go on health kicks and take medication that means they stop drinking for a while even if they aren't teetotal.

I dont drink. Presumably if you're having a friend over for a bottle of wine its actually a catch up they're after? Surely its not the aim to just drink a bottle of wine?

Ah posted too soon!

If its the former (a catch up) a teetotal friend is capable of doing that. If its the latter (just to drink a bottle) id be questioning my friend choices 😂

Are you leaving people out or being left out?

I don't know, I always get the impression that a catch up over a bottle of wine is to both get a bit drunk and giggly. These sort of occasions I don't seem to be included in being a nondrinker.

Of course I would invite them, hate drunks.

Definitely not but then I'd rather have teetotallers there then a boring drunk droning on about themselves. I do know people who have excluded people that don't drink but I think that's because they're worried about people remembering their behaviour the morning after!
I've found, since I stopped drinking, that it makes some 'drinkers' feel uncomfortable with their own choices so on nights out they constantly reiterate to me how they usually 'barely ever drink' or 'only drink at weekends' etc etc. I couldn't care less but I do find their need to justify themselves quite telling. The other thing they often do is try to persuade me to have a drink when I don't want one, so yes I do think that 'teetotallers' can make some 'drinkers' feel uncomfortable but that is their problem not yours.