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Two drinks now land like five

Started 1 January 2025 · 14 replies · 167 hearts · read 3.4k times

NkechiAbuja, NG · 1 January 2025
1.5 years ago

Two drinks now land like five — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

What I am after is the version of this that works when nobody is helping, because that is my situation and most accounts assume otherwise.

My household has adjusted to about half of this and the other half is causing small daily friction that I have not known how to raise.

Two is the honest number. I nearly rounded it in the title and then decided that rounding is how these things stop being useful to anybody.

Sorry for the length. The logistics take longer to describe than they do to do.

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AmbroseYork, UK
#1

Coming back a year on to say it settled into something I am comfortable with, which is less and better and much less thought about.

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OttoPrague, CZ
#2

To the opening post rather than to the thread: Nkechi, this is my version of it.

Two landed like five for me, very early on, and it took one uncomfortable evening to work out that something had genuinely changed.

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DotFalmouth, UK
#3

Nkechi, I have been where you are and I would rather say so than stay quiet.

What helped was noticing the pattern in my notes. Three difficult mornings across two months, all after the same thing.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#4

If you come back later and say what you actually ended up doing, that is the post the next person reads. Threads that stop are the ones that leave somebody stranded.

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FionnualaDundalk, IE
#5

I would gently say that if you are drinking to manage a difficult week, that is worth saying out loud somewhere, and this is a good place to start.

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PerdyShrewsbury, UK
#6

My rule now is that I do not drink on the day, which is entirely my own rule and my prescriber was fairly relaxed about the whole subject.

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NedChesterfield, UK
#7

Not a solution, just company.

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MorayElgin, UK
#8

Fionnuala, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

The thing I did not expect was how much better my sleep got, and how much of what I had blamed on other things had been the drinking.

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BoWhitby, UK
#9

Coming back to what Perdy wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

What I found is that the first drink now does what three used to, so I have stopped at one and been perfectly content.

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RafeBordeaux, FR
#10

My experience is that this is one of the most commonly reported changes here and one of the least discussed anywhere else.

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LucasSão Paulo, BR
#11

What I would say is that the change caught me out socially more than physically. My rounds were the same and my capacity was not.

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SephNorwich, UK
#12

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
#13

Closing note: this stays linked from the circle landing page and stays open. Late arrivals with a different arrangement are very welcome.

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LinneaTurku, FI
#14

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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