Drinking Buddies. in The Napkin.

Not really a secret I’ve been on /r/StopDrinking. Something I read about are people who are all “I want to drink, but it’ll kill my social life.”

I can’t relate to this at all. Like, where are you going? How can you possibly call these people friends if abstaining from the sauce means you’ll lose them as friends? Obviously, I can’t make these statements in such a space. At least, not so callously or directly. How is the social pressure to drink so high?

When I told my friends years ago that I was cutting back, their reaction was “Okay. Is it cool if we still drink around you?” And that was that. If they drank, I wouldn’t, and they never once pressured me. Never once felt tempted.

If I drink, I drink alone - haven’t drank around humans in years. I look for posts of those who live alone and don’t have an in-person safety/friendship/family net. (As in, nobody to help them.)

But like. Social drinking? I don’t get it. The times I would drink with my friends would be once, maybe twice a year. Thrice at the most. I don’t recall our standard Game Night really having any alcohol. (D&D, Telestrations, Munchkin, Great Dalmuti, etc.) So.

Yeah. :: shrugs ::

That’s all. I have a known unknown. I know what I don’t know. (Thanks, Donald Rumsfeld!)