I have my ups and downs like many. Sometimes, when in a rut, I can comfortably drink 3-4 canadian clubs (double shots, mind you) of an evening - if I'm with friends I can polish off much more.
I don't have an incessant need or feel a dependency but do feel a sense of peer pressure. Not in the sense of it being real delivered pressure, but in the way others have said it's almost like an expectation amongst certain circles. There's also the same circles that kinda look at you weirdly when you say you're not drinking, or don't want to over-drink etc.
I would say though in the past few years, the weeks or months when drinking is low is less than perhaps it was before that. Perhaps there's also the as we get older and have more disposable income there's a higher ability to spend more on alcohol be it out or at home. Nicer bottles of wines, whiskeys, etc etc.
I'd happily be a one or two here and there kinda guy, though with my current tolerance level, that wouldn't really register for me in that relaxing type of way that you might hope.
I don't have an incessant need or feel a dependency but do feel a sense of peer pressure. Not in the sense of it being real delivered pressure, but in the way others have said it's almost like an expectation amongst certain circles. There's also the same circles that kinda look at you weirdly when you say you're not drinking, or don't want to over-drink etc.
I would say though in the past few years, the weeks or months when drinking is low is less than perhaps it was before that. Perhaps there's also the as we get older and have more disposable income there's a higher ability to spend more on alcohol be it out or at home. Nicer bottles of wines, whiskeys, etc etc.
I'd happily be a one or two here and there kinda guy, though with my current tolerance level, that wouldn't really register for me in that relaxing type of way that you might hope.