Embarrassed myself at friends wedding.

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I went to a friends wedding a month ago. Had too much to drink, and fell asleep in the toilets. I was found by one of the bridesmaids who helped me to my room. The next day, everyone was joking about it.

I am mortified. I have 3 children and im 40 years old. I feel so much shame for getting myself in this state. It keeps popping into my head and I feel that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach! What an embarrassment I am.

I don’t really know what I’m hoping to get out of this post, but I am alone with my thoughts and feeling awful about this whole thing. I socialise with this extended group every 6 months or so, and I’ll be seeing them again soon, and I just don’t want to go. My friends parents all know etc. Will I ever not feel so awful about this???

How old are your children and were they there? Did you have a DP/DH with you?

If not - I literally think you need to learn to laugh about it. If you didnt offend anyone then its a non-issue and the fact you're a mother irrelevant too.

It’s not a big deal. You fell asleep. You didn’t get belligerent or swing for anyone or talk the ear of the groom’s grandfather.

Perfect responses. Style it out, OP. They're laughing because it's a bit silly, funny, not because it's awful or embarrassing. Pretend it doesn't matter and they'll forget about it and move on to the next topic.

It’s the feeling of embarrassment that means I hardly drink anymore. That at the hangovers! I stopped being able to really cope with more than 2 drinks when I was in my late 30’s but persevered for another year before coming to the conclusion that I was better off without it. (I’m not tee total, I do drink occasionally)
I never did anything crazy or bad I just felt ashamed the next day about maybe being too loud or hogging the conversation. Whether or not I was doing that I don’t know but the hangxiety was killing me off so I’ve pretty much knocked it on the head.
Not saying you need to do this too op, it’s just reading this made me remember the embarrassment of the next day and coming days.

My old boss (also a mother of three) got so drunk at our work Xmas do one year she gave everyone an individual lap dance then fell over, broke her leg and went off in an ambulance. Honestly, people will have seen far worse.

Was that all that happened, you fell asleep in the loo? Was there more to it, like were you stumbling and incoherent before or after?

Ach, blame it on lack of sleep rather than alcohol. You might get some teasing but hopefully most people were focused on the happy couple. It's definitely not the worst thing I have heard of happening in the toilets at a wedding! Just remember that your tolerance for alcohol drops if you don't drink regularly.

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I'm not a drinker and I do privately judge people who do stupid things while drunk, and even I think falling asleep at a wedding after drinking too much is mild and not worth worrying about. Especially if your children were in good hands when this happened and you only 'let loose' when you know they are safe and cared for, that's your own business and nothing to lose sleep over. If you're worried about accidentally drinking more than you intend, now you know to keep closer track of what you're drinking and stop after a certain point. It's only if you can't make yourself limit your drinking that I'd be worried and look for help, but it doesn't sound like that's the case here at all, so give yourself a break. It's not that bad!

Honestly, as PPs have rightly said, if bad behaviour at weddings was a continuum, yours would barely register. People were ragging you about it to your face because it wasn't terrible.

You went to a Wedding and got rat arsed it’s not end of the flippin world. You’re most certainly not the first and you most certainly won’t be the last.

That's not that bad really. You were tired/tipsy. Someone found you and took you to your room and you were safe. You didn't have a fight or piss yourself or anything? It wasn't like loads of people saw you?

Just join in with the laughter about it. Nobody's going to hold it against you. If they do then they're twats.

You're being way too hard on yourself OP, I get it, I'd probably do the same (because I can be too hard on myself too) but I'd be telling a friend in all sincerity to not worry!

I hope you get to the point soon that you can, if not laugh about it, at least not feel terrible. You did nothing wrong!!

I was expecting this to be much worse, all you did was fall asleep! Not dance topless on the bar. It's not that bad x

If they say something this time you meet I'd brazen it out with humour. Think of some comeback lines for what could possibly be said to you. At least you didn't fall asleep during the speeches!!! If it continues the next time, tell them its old news now, and cant believe they'd still be going on about it.

A mother that is exhausted from running around after her kids all the time who went out, had some drinks, fun and couldn’t hack the pace simply falling asleep in the toilet; that’s who!
give yourself some grace, you weren’t horrible to anyone, you didn’t put your kids in danger, you weren’t explicit, you simply fell asleep drunk and tired after having enjoyed your day out at a wedding!

Most of us have had the odd 'blow out' as I like to call it where we simply have just drank too much, feel deeply embarrassed, have the hangover from hell, promise we will never do it again and then history repeats itself 😂. Don't be so hard on yourself OP. You've 3 kids, you're probably knackered and the drink went straight to your head.

Goodness, when compared with some of the shenanigans reported on this site, that is NOTHING, OP! You very likely fell asleep because 1. you were tired and 2. you're not used to drinking.

Stop beating yourself up.

That’s the sort of thing I’d do….laugh at myself and get it over with!

You’re going to have to style this one out. ‘Yep horrendous, what a numpty I was, great day thought wasn’t it.’ Laugh and move it on. You might need to do that a few times but then it’s done and dusted

Yeah it’s not bad as far as wedding drunkenness goes.

You probably won’t feel better until
you've seen the group of friends though so do try and go along, style it out and be breezy!

Many mothers have got drunk and embarrassed themselves. I'm one of them. I can laugh about it.
Do you naturally hold yourself to very high standards or does someone in your life have very high expectations of you?

Sounds a bit of a tame wedding if the only excitement was a 40 something having one too many and falling asleep! Just laugh along - they’ll soon get bored.

Do you think you have a drinking problem? Is that what is bothering you here? Do you have form for this type of behaviour?

i really wouldn’t blame a mum of three kids getting a bit drunk at a wedding. I also tend to fall asleep when ive over indulged. I once fel asleep slumped at a bar

I would really not judge you for this at all! Whether you were 20/40/60, a mother of 1 or 10.
Honestly I'd never make anyone feel embarrassed of this, I'd joke with a close friend but only if it was something they also found funny. If they didn't I'd never mention it again.