Why did I drink 2 bottles of wine!

[Isitchristmasyett]

So, I was making a Sunday roast yesterday, opened a bottle of wine and before I knew it 2 had gone! This is not a regular occasion and don’t think I have ever done that before. It was over the course of about 6 hours but I am paying for it today.

can anybody else manage 2 bottles?

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@Elephant788 you have absolutely no idea about alcoholism. I'd pipe down if I was you.

I agree, somebody is not an alcoholic just because they had a little too much to drink now and then.

I over indulge every few months or so - it certainly doesn't mean I have an alcohol problem.

You know you have a serious issue if you are drinking most nights or days of the week, or when you do drink, you drink to blackout.

3 large glasses is a bottle of wine so it depends on the size of your glass

Yeah in our house a bottle of wine is 6 glasses

@Squishymallows i must admit I get 5-6 glasses from a bottle at home but on the rare occasions I have wine in a pub it’s probably 250ml
Off the point but if I go out for lunch in a pub I have tea as I’m too tight to pay pub wine prices.

Off the subject I know, but when I go for a pub lunch I drink wine rather than tea because it really bugs me to pay £3+ for something that costs about 20p to provide! 😄

At our local we can get two main meals and 4 cups of tea for just under £24. A 175ml glass of wine is £6:50.

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Some people here call it "support", instead of calling a spade, a spade x

Don’t sweat it. It sounds like a one off, you’re not going to do it again and you’re going through a hard time. The kids were ok.

Anyone who has been to a wedding, had a few glasses of champagne at the start, drunk wine through the meal and had a cocktail at the end had drunk the same amount of alcohol. Of course you shouldn't do it all the time - not least because it's clearly given you terrible hangxiety, but it's not a crime and it's certainly not a sign that you're an alcoholic.

Being an alcoholic is about compulsion, not rare binge drinking, and the perpetual misrepresentation of alcoholism on MN is extremely annoying. This is much the same as eating a whole cake - not ideal for your body but not a crime.

It isn’t calling a spade a spade to call someone an alcoholic for drinking two bottles of wine as a one off. As someone upthread pointed out if you go to a function such as a wedding, during the course of the day you’ve probably drunk the equivalent, although over a longer period of time. The detrimental effects of alcohol are cumulative and those warning that OP has damaged her liver are quite simply talking out of their arses.

I thought real MNers could only manage a sniff of sherry?

Nobody is embarrassing themselves at all. What you’ve done is taken that quote out of context. It’s intended to warn those who are doing this on a regular basis long term - not what OP has done as a one-off. The effects of alcohol are cumulative over time and usually by the time symptoms appear you’ve done significant damage to your liver and probably other organs including the brain. If OP was binge drinking on a regular basis then she’d be at risk, but as a one off it’s ridiculous to suggest she’s putting her health at risk if she normally drinks moderately and within recommended limits.

No. But her liver will recover. Can’t say the same for your sanctimonious (and erroneous) advice.

Just because one equally deluded poster agrees with you, doesn’t mean you’re right. I see you are ignoring the multiple posters explaining why your comments are not just unhelpful but utterly incorrect. You are making yourself look very silly and uneducated.

@Elephant788

lighten up, hun. I think you could actually do with a few glasses of wine or a couple of cocky-t’s.