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Whisky country and no interest in whisky

Started 4 November 2025 · 12 replies · 101 hearts · read 1.9k times

AmbroseYork, UK · 4 November 2025
8 months ago

A question rather than an update: Whisky country and no interest in whisky

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

I have tried three arrangements and none of them has survived a difficult week, which suggests I am designing for good weeks.

I would like to know what other people say when asked, because my current answer is too long and invites more questions.

No hurry. I have a fortnight before I need to decide anything.

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#1

The pub is still the pub and I still go. That took a bit of working out and the answer turned out to be that the pub was never about the drink.

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TamGlasgow, UK
#2

Mine hit much faster and lasted longer, and the following day was noticeably worse than it used to be.

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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#3

It simply stopped appealing. I had not decided anything and one day I noticed I had not wanted a drink in three weeks.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

Speaking as a facilitator: nobody owes anybody at their own table an explanation, and this circle will keep saying so as often as it needs to.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#5

What surprised me was how much I did not miss it. I had expected to and I genuinely did not, and that told me something.

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NkechiAbuja, NG
#6

My honest report is that I still drink, less, and I enjoy it more, which was not the outcome I predicted.

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SephNorwich, UK
#7

Something practical: I switched to something non-alcoholic that looks like a drink, and the number of questions I get dropped to zero.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#8

What Nkechi described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I found that eating less alongside drinking was the actual mechanism in my case, rather than anything more mysterious.

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OttoPrague, CZ
#9

The thing I would flag is that if drinking has become a way of managing something, that is a different conversation and worth having with somebody qualified.

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BethanPontypridd, UK
#10

Building on what Seph wrote rather than answering the original question.

I had one evening where I was much more affected than expected and it frightened me, and I have been careful and fine since.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#11

Thank you for the honesty about how hard the logistics have been. The accounts that admit the planning is exhausting are the useful ones.

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BoWhitby, UK
#12

Picking up Otto’s point rather than starting a new one.

What helped was telling one friend, so that in a group there was somebody who knew and quietly covered for me.

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