to be naffed off with dp's drinking habits - how much/how often does your dp/dh drink?

[sandfairy]

I'm sure i'm being unreasonable but I find myself becoming increasingly enraged by dp's drinking... I don't think he drinks excessively in the big scheme of things but oh how it annoys me!

He'll have 3 cans of Kronenburg about 4 nights a week. He snores SO much more after a few drinks, his breath smells like poo (ok, not literally), it costs a bit and I just wonder what the point is really. Possibly being pregnant doesn't help as i'm not drinking at all, but I rarely drink normally - just sometimes at the weekend or special occasions.

Just want to do a quick survey - How much and how often does your dp/dh drink?

My partner has about 3 different medications which state "not to be taken with alcohol" so he's teetotal. Before I became pregnant, I enjoyed a glass of wine once or twice a week, usually after I had opened a bottle of red to put a bit in the stew or the pasta sauce.

I know what you're saying though.... sounds a bit like my sister's husband. He's confrontational at the best of times and his temper does not improve with a few drinks! I understand he snores like a buzzsaw. Hey, she married him, not me. To be honest, my nephew and niece have seen how useless their father & friends can get after a night of poker and drinking, and I think it put them off alcohol! My sister managed to get a video of one of her husband's friends actually weeing himself because he didn't get to the toilet in time. My 6-year-old nephew was in hysterics at this... sort of a real-life example of how not to handle your alcohol consumption.

Case in point. Dp shouting at me, telling me i'm wasting my time reading the swine-flu thread on mumsnet (which i'm doing in an attempt to inform myself and decide what to do). Says he has no opinion and is not interested. He wouldn't normally be like that but had 1 or 2 beers. It's wierd how so little alcohol makes his personality change. He can still function completely well, i just don't like him like this.

Seededbiatch - i've told him quite a few times that i think it turns him into an idiot but to no avail! When we had friends round a few weeks ago for dinner, he was trying to be 'funny' but it kept on sounding like he was either a sarky, rude, smart-arse or just plain rude. I could see our friends just looking bemused and i felt so embarassed. Alcohol does him NO favours.

Aha! Well I don't blame you at all in that case. That is not on.

About the same as me, sometimes a bit more.

I drink about as often as your DH does, I don't think it's excessive. DH drinks more/more often but it isn't usually a problem. Especially since he stopped drinking spirits.

DP doesn't drink much. When I am not pregnant we share a bottle of wine a week or so (but as I tend to be the one to open it we haven't for the last couple of months and he hasn't noticed). He will have a beer at a party/BBQ and goes out with workmates about once a month, he does usually drink more then and snores and isn't allowed into bed until he has showered.

We are both "happy" drunks, in that if we get a bit tipsy we might get a bit louder and laugh more but neither of us drink to the point of actually being drunk. Always intersperse water with alcohol etc.

I have noticed that there are more "mean" and "sad" drunks here than in Oz. I don't know what the variable is (probably lack of sunlight) .

DH's drinking worries me. He drinks every night, 2 of the big becks bottles at least. Sometimes he will go to the pub as well, or have half a bottle of wine.

He's not a swine when drunk and he can afford it. But I worry about his health. He is v. overweight and trying to diet, but does not see that it's pointless to cut down on food, yet still have all those calories from alcohol. Plus there's the fact that he needs a drink every night. He won't see the GP as he says work will find out, he holds an alcohol licence as part of his job, so that would be disastrous.

2-3 bottles of beer and 2-3 glassed of wine most nights.