Alcohol consumption

[Mumtwoboys90]

aibu to think that drinking 10 units of alcohol every day on a 2 week holiday is a lot?

Depends on context and who's doing the drinking, I guess. When I was 17 and on a two week holiday to Corfu, it was standard. Now at 41, I'd be very ill if I tried that every night for two weeks. But then I don't drink much these days. Is this you or someone else you're concerned about? Is it affecting their behaviour for the rest of the holiday?

Advice is no more than 14 units a week & to have some alcohol free days so yes, binge drinking 70 units a week is excessive. Plenty of people over indulge on holiday but 140 - that’s a whole other level.

Yeah it’s a lot but if it’s just for one two week period and not more regularly it’s unlikely to be a problem

That's 4 pints of fosters a day on holiday, I really don't think that's a lot at all

Lightweight

If you break it down a couple of glasses of wine at lunch, pre dinner drinks and then wine with dinner , it soon adds up and that's not popping in for a beer or cider because it's hot, cold. raining etc.

I dread to think how many units we drink on holiday as DH plans our holidays around bars, pubs and fireplaces that sell alcohol. At home we only drink at weekends and I drink a lot less than DH.

10 units is approximately 5 pints of average strength beer of cider. If drunk over the course of a day the person consuming the alcohol may not feel it is affecting them. If it is over short period they may appear intoxicated.
How is this persons drinking when they are not on holiday? Do they usually stick to the government guidelines and have several alcohol free days per week?
On paper it is a lot but we need to look at there drinking behaviour when in normal day to day circumstances.
Also is this person in charge of children? Is it a family holiday? A clubbing holiday? A stag do? A honeymoon? If we know the type of holiday we can understand the levels better. If that makes sense.

Fireplaces that sell alcohol - he knows all the handy corners eh?

It’s a bottle of wine which isn’t too much over a day on holiday. Half at lunch, half in the evening. Nothing that.

If they were doing it every single day at home, it would be problematic.

As a one-off for two weeks a year on holiday, I don't think it's massively unusual or pathological, as long as the person isn't driving drunk or neglecting kids or anything.

Though being more serious, that would really spoil the holiday for me (well, even 1/3 of that amount would but I'm not very big and not remotely young), I'd be too tired and groggy to enjoy the rest of the things like beach/sights etc on the holiday, and it would may any sunburn feel hotter so I'd sleep badly, to compound the misery.

It would be odd to feel the need to drink so consistently every single day/night IMO

Couple of glasses of wine (say) at lunch and a couple at dinner? It's more that I would probably have but seems pretty standard for lots of people and nothing too eyebrow-raising as long as it's confined to the holiday itself.

I think it’s fine on holiday but it would be waaay too much if it was every day at home. I could drink that each day on holiday easy.

It’s a holiday, I think it’s fine to overindulge. I probably drink that much whilst abroad, especially if you consider cocktails at a beach bar in the day, plus beer then drinks with food in the evening. It would be different if it was every day at home.

I think it's OK on holiday but not if it's something that's done often at home. I'm thinking back to the bloody marys we were served at breakfast every morning in Barbados. I shudder to think of the units racked up. I'm normally a 1 or 2 drinks at the weekend kind of person.

Supersonicginandtonic
Yes I should have said its a family holiday with our children.

Not on holiday no. Glass of wine or beer with lunch, sun downer gin and tonic, pre dinner drink, wine with dinner, couple of night caps after at the bar. Fairly standard.

Sounds pretty standard for a holiday to me

If it's only on holiday, I wouldn't have a problem with it - especially if spread out from afternoon into late at night. If it was every day, I'd consider it a big problem. I'm the widow of an alcoholic, for context.

If you're going to be tracking and commenting on your husband's alcohol consumption all holiday it's really going to suck the joy out of it. Unless he's getting drunk and behaving like an arse and needs telling of course.

You’ve posted about him before.
He drinks daily. He can’t get to Tuesday without “needing” a drink.
He takes a bottle of whisky on holiday.
He says it’s fine to drink and drive.
He has a drink problem.
He won’t change.
So you need to.

Ok just seen your other thread, drinking on holiday is the least of the issues here. Think you’re married to an alcoholic.

On holiday it’s pretty standard for many people. Especially if you have a glass wine with lunch, then a sundowner etc.

Normal day to day life no.

OK, I've just seen your other thread too - he has an alcohol problem. Nothing you can do about it though - an alcoholic will only stop when they want to stop. He's probably functioning at the moment - mine did, for years. Until he didn't, and then it all crashed and burned over the space of about 3 years.

You need to contact Al-Anon or a similar support group (there are others) and talk through the situation with people who have been there. Ultimately his drinking will get worse, it will affect your DC and it will break you if he doesn't find the motivation to stop.

Pretty standard holiday drinking for me, we usually hire a villa with a pool. At home god no.