If possible, let me know how large the glasses are. Tall glasses, small glass, bottles, 0.5 liters, etc.
I hardly drink but the DH has a tad more than I would prefer him to drink. Just curious what you and your SO drink at dinner.
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If we drink (maybe once every few months)...I might have one and he might have 2.
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My husband doesn't drink, but I will have 2 drinks (either a glass of wine or a gin and tonic) at most. Some of that has to do with being cheap too
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Before I got pregnant, the Mr. and I would typically split a 12 oz bottle of beer over dinner pretty much most nights... so 6 oz each? A few times a week we'd split a 2nd beer if we felt like going crazy. So we're very regular drinkers, but small quantities.
Now he's not drinking every night, but when he does, he has to drink the whole bottle on his own, so just in the interests of non-expanding waistlines, he's been cutting back a bit.
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A couple of glasses of wine, if we are out or have friends over definitely more.
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We both don't really drink... For me, I can max have 1 drink and barely finishing it.
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On a regularish basis when we're at home? A drink or two each, but not every night. If we go out to dinner, we'll have 2-3 drinks each. But we do not drive or have kids yet.
ETA: i'm just talking about a standard casual night/weeknight. If we go "out" or have a party or something, we would drink more
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@bluestriped bee: do you mean during the week at home? I drink way more when we go out bc I enjoy having a few cocktails and we have a sitter for the night. At home during the week we'll share a bottle of wine so about 2 glasses each. Or DH might have 3-4 beers and I'll have 1-2 beers.
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When we're out, usually 2 (beers or glasses of wine for DH). At home, it can vary. 2-4 during the week but usually more on the weekend. I'll usually have at least a glass of wine every night, DH will have 2 and probably a beer or 2 before, depending on what he was doing during the day.
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When we go out for dinner...
Me : maybe one. Maybe
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We split a bottle of wine most nights - so about 2 "big" glasses each, or 3 smallish glasses. That's over the course of the evening (between 6 and say, 11pm). Sometimes my husband also has a cocktail.
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like if we're out to dinner or every night?
if we were out, i would have a drink or two. mr. bird is almost 4 months sober. i think it depends on the person, what they're drinking and why. if you're drinking one drink a day, but it's a shot in the bathroom before you leave for work, sure you're not drinking much, but that's problem drinking! if you are a beer connoisseur and you drink 3 beers each night, that is more, but might not be a problem at all.
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@sandy: I was thinking at home or when you go out to dinner.
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Maybe a glass of wine each. Not often though.
I've been pregnant or breastfeeding for two years and have hardly had anything to drink in that time. DH might have a beer a month. -
@mrs. bird: Ah, good point. My DH is a regular beer drinker, well, when he buys a case of beer, but he could go without it, if we didn't have it in the house.
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Never more than one drink each at a meal. So size wise like a bottle of beer or a mixed drink. And it's never every single day, we aren't huge drinkers.
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Just on a regular weeknight? I don't drink any alcohol with dinner. DH occasionally has anywhere from 1 to 3 beers on a weeknight, maybe once a week?
On a weekend I might have one or two glasses of wine with dinner and he might have up to 4 beers. It just depends.
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We have a kegorater at our house. Most nights hubs has a beer with dinner, maybe two. Long before pregnancy and babies i was put on a medication that i absolutely could not drink while taking so i never got in the habit of a nightly drink. Now that i have to think about breastfeeding its just easier not to drink. but i could probably put back 1/2 bottle of wine at dinner
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When going out to dinner (pre-pregnancy) and I am driving, I will have zero and my husband would have one or two beers (good beers, so stronger than Bud Light, for example). If my husband is driving he might have at most one beer, while I would have one beer or glass of wine. Sometimes we'll each have a beer if we are eating at home, but generally we're water drinkers with dinner at home.
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DH will have a couple beers. I'll have a glass of wine.
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if we go out to dinner, we usually have 1-2 glasses of wine, beer, or cocktails each. generally, it is too much for the two of us to split a whole bottle of wine, at least for me!
at home, if it's just us, we'll maybe have a single glass of wine or beer, but not that often. maybe a couple nights per month
socially (like, if we go out with a group or have people over) we tend to drink a little more.
this is all pre-pregnancy for me--my tolerance will be lower once I start drinking again I'm sure! I doubt I'll have more than 1 drink for awhile...and dh doesn't drink at home very often at all anymore, unless we have people over.
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Generally none but if we go out on a date up to two glasses of wine. Pre kids we used to be able to split a bottle.
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Two or three drinks at dinner. He drinks vodka or bourbon on the rocks. I drink a gin cocktail. He is never out of control so I don't care how much he drinks and would never think about complaining about his alcohol consumption. That's dangerous grounds, in my mind!!
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Only about a glass of wine every few weeks (when I'm not pregnant). DH has 1-2 beers but not every night, about once a week.
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We only drink alcohol with dinner if we go out. When we do, its usually only 1 or 2 each.
We drink socially on the weekends (Fri or Sat, sometimes both). Usually I'll buy an 18 pack of beer that'll last the weekend. If we're having certain people over, I buy a 30 pack just because I know they'll drink ours (our friends all byob, but a certain couple never bring enough, and the byob works all directions - so we bring our own to their houses as well).
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Out to dinner/weekend: I might have 1 drink (tap beer or margarita) and DH 1-2 (bottled beer).
At home: We don't drink midweek, but we can polish off a bottle of wine on a weekend night between the two of us once every two weeks or so.
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DH has anywhere from 1-3 cocktails most nights. He goes on a kick several times a year where he doesn't drink for a month so he can loose some weight.
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@IRunForFun: Ah, that's similar to what my DH will drink, if we have beer at home and if we go out.
Granted, I know it was St. Patrick's day, yesterday, but he had 2.5 L of beer plus 3 shots of whiskey (2 of the shots was part of a whiskey sampler). I didn't have anything to drink and we were going out for dinner. 2 hours later, we were still sitting there and I was waiting for him to finish his beer. I mentioned to him 3 times that I was tired after working a 11 hrs at work and wanted to go home. He ended up getting a 0.5L of beer after I told him I was tired. Yeah, I wasn't too happy with him late last night. (Maybe it was a misunderstanding, I thought we were going out for St. P day dinner and he thought he was going out for dinner and drinks.)
The week before he had 2.5L of beer at dinner, when we went out. Plus, he got a case of beer at home for St. Patrick's day weekend. I'm fine with him having 2-3 regular sized glasses but not a couple of huge 1 L glasses of beer. I know this is different for everyone and as a non-drinker, I know I'm a tad more strict on alcohol consumption. We did have a conversation 2 days ago about how he was going to cut down on drinking when we have kids. It was a great conversation and it was great hearing him say he will cut down but a part of me thinks his habit will be harder to break than he says it will be.
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@yoursilverlining: This. Thank you for making me feel like less of an outsider.
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@bluestriped bee: So on the average he consumes that amount maybe once a week? He doesn't drink daily?
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I've been having two beers each night since I haven't drank in two years. DH drinks more than is Id prefer also...more than a six pack of beer on weekends.
I went crazy on him a few weeks ago when we brought the baby home. DS was crying and I was up with dd and he was out back drinking beer and smoking a cigar. I was pissed!
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@Boogs: Well, on Friday, he got a case of beer because I asked him to get some beer so I could add some to the corned beef and cabbage. So he's been drinking a few cans of beer since Friday.
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@bluestriped bee: I understand how you feel. When DH and I first moved in together I was a little surprised by the fact that he'd often have a couple of beers on a weeknight, because I don't drink during the week, I have a lower tolerance and it makes me feel crappy, so it's not worth it to me. Because of MY experience with alcohol, I was somewhat uncomfortable with his drinking during the week, but after talks about it, I realized I was basing my opinion on how it affects me, not how it affects him and how he handles it. He's responsible, it doesn't impact his lifestyle in any negative way, and he enjoys it (the taste, not just the relaxation factor.) I have learned to become comfortable with it. Obviously if it WAS having some negative affects on our life we'd have to re-evaluate.
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Husband usually gets 1-2 beers, but I don't drink except for the occasional glass of wine.
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When we go out and order a drink we get 1 drink each. At home when it is just the two of us we will drink just 1. When we are at home but eating dinner with friends or family we usually have 2-3.
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i drink a little wine every night--i'm thinking 5-6 oz total. husband has about the same. my tolerance is pretty low and anything too much past 1 glass will get me pretty tipsy these days.
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@bluestriped bee: Yeah, but would you say that's typical? Either way if it makes you uncomfortable, I'm glad you're able to talk with him about it!
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on weeknights - none. on weekends - quite a bit. dh will have 2-3 scotches and i'll have two mixed drinks
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wow haven't had a drink since maybe September of last year bc of all our IF procedures and now being pregnant, but dh and I used to have maybe 2-3 drinks (wine mostly) 3-4 nights a week. dh now has maybe 1 drink a night which used to bother me but I've learned to let it go. he works very hard and I've been on bed rest and he's been picking up the slack all around. so I'll let it go.. for now..
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@IRunForFun: Yeah, that's true. It doesn't negatively impact our life. I was just annoyed that I told him 3 times that I was tired from a long day at work and he got one last beer and I had to wait for him to finish it. Maybe I should have been more clear that I wanted to leave, but I get this feeling that I'm a party pooper (especially on St. Patty's day).
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