Is drinking to excess most weekends (Sat, maybe Fri also) every weekend make you a....

[ZoomStop]

So like every weekend the better half and I drink to the point of being wasted almost every Saturday and many Friday nights after the kids go to bed.
We are 28 (me) & 23 (her) with two kids (5 & 2). So I guess my question is if this makes us:
1. Young(ish) and having fun
2. Bad parents
3. Have a drinking problem
4. Normal for stressed parents
5. Something else
Many of you ATOT folks are older and wiser. Are we on a path to trouble? Am I worrying about nothing after my 14th drink tonight?

 

[bctbct]

Doesnt sound good. Ask yourself this, do your kids suffer the next day beause of your behavior?

 

[bctbct]

oh, we need a pic of the wife to better evaluate the situation.

 

[pyonir]

14th? What are you drinking?

 

[Throckmorton]

I'm assuming you were drinking when you got her pregnant at 18, and you still keep doing it. So that probably makes you both alcoholics.

 

[KeithTalent]

I have to say as a relatively single guy, drinking to drunkenness every Friday and Saturday would make me feel like a drunk. Doing it as a parent would make me feel negligent and irresponsible.

KT

 

[Joemonkey]

welcome fellow imbiber!

My wife and I are both 29, have a 2.5yo daughter, and quite often drink to excess on Friday or Saturday. Both of us know how to "avoid" a hangover via not drinking to excessive excess and drinking water before bed, and it does not effect our daughter's way of life. I guarantee you if it ever did we'd both stop drinking to excess immediately

 

[ZoomStop]

OK, few thing here:
The wife: http:/www.fixthebike.com/sami.jpg

 

[TwiceOver]

My wife and I have no kids and drink plenty more than that. I don't consider either of us alcoholics.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: AcidBath
OK, few thing here:
The wife: http:/www.fixthebike.com/sami.jpg

nice of you to oblige the TTIWWP folks

seriously, this forum will make you feel like shit for:

1. drinking

2. having tattoos

3. being agnostic/atheist

ignore the fact that most people are stupid and you should just enjoy your life, if alcohol adversely effects your family, then cut back or quit that shit. If not, drink up!

 

[ZoomStop]

OK, few thing here:
* The wife: http:/www.fixthebike.com/sami.jpg
* 14th - would be Jack and cokes tonight, beer many other nights. Tequila on other nights.
* As far as the kids go, they are great. The most they ever need to endure would be parents who feel under the weather on Sunday mornings. But it all happens after the kids are in bed (friends arrive after 9:00)

 

[MyThirdEye]

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[Joemonkey]

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but a drink is a drink, can't really go by numbers... your jack and coke might be 1oz jack and 4oz coke and mine might be 4oz jack and 1oz coke... i'm not here to argue semantics, if you are not adversely effecting your children's quality of life by your actions, by all means enjoy yourself

 

[KeithTalent]

Ok, I am going to go out on a limb here and say you are all good here, in general. It sounds as if everything is under control, so you don't really need to worry too much.

As long as you keep the kids as number 1, then you should be fine. As long as nothing affects them, well then, you are ok in my books.

KT

 

[Q]

I say it's weird but you will stop doing it soon enough, you are just still in your young age/stuck in college

 

[ZoomStop]

Well I feel quite a bit better after the opinions. I guess the real warning sign would be if my kids start to be affected (which has not been an issue).
Three cheers for water and Tylenol before bed.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: AcidBath
Well I feel quite a bit better after the opinions. I guess the real warning sign would be if my kids start to be affected (which has not been an issue).
Three cheers for water and Tylenol before bed.

Yep. As soon as your kids start ebing affected you better run and fucking hide though, I have no tolerance for that shit.

KT

 

[Q]

After re-reading the first post, you are on your 14th drink? Now that is getting excessive

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: AcidBath
Well I feel quite a bit better after the opinions. I guess the real warning sign would be if my kids start to be affected (which has not been an issue).
Three cheers for water and Tylenol before bed.

I would never take Tylenol when drinking. Tylenol prevents the liver from properly breaking down alcohol and can lead you to vomit.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: AcidBath
Well I feel quite a bit better after the opinions. I guess the real warning sign would be if my kids start to be affected (which has not been an issue).
Three cheers for water and Tylenol before bed.

I hope you're kidding. You should NOT be taking Tylenol if you are drinking that much.

 

[TwiceOver]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: AcidBath
Well I feel quite a bit better after the opinions. I guess the real warning sign would be if my kids start to be affected (which has not been an issue).
Three cheers for water and Tylenol before bed.

I hope you're kidding. You should NOT be taking Tylenol if you are drinking that much.

Ibuprofen is your friend. Water + Ibuprofen, sleep, cold greasy something, good to go.

 

[ZoomStop]

Well to be honest I had never heard about the Tylenol/drinking issues but after this thread and then seeing this: http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/3508.html, I am now glad I asked the first post regardless. That is good info and I had no idea. Thanks ATOT.

And liver damage aside the real goal is to be ready to roll when those kids get up at 7am.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: AcidBath
Well I feel quite a bit better after the opinions. I guess the real warning sign would be if my kids start to be affected (which has not been an issue).
Three cheers for water and Tylenol before bed.

I would never take Tylenol when drinking. Tylenol prevents the liver from properly breaking down alcohol and can lead you to vomit.

yeah Tylenol before bed is bad news, promotes liver damage like crazy. Aspirin already promotes stomach bleeding, and thinning your blood w/ alcohol and taking aspirin = more risk. Same with ibuprofen.

Just drink as much water as you possibly can before you go to bed (and by that I mean 64oz if you can!), and maybe take an extra multivitamin. If you wake up early and fuzzy in the morning to go pee way before time to get up (drinking the extra water helps with this), go ahead and take a couple ibuprofen as the alcohol should have made its way mostly through your system and taking it a couple hours before you "really" get up will get a head start on any headache you may have.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: AcidBath
Well I feel quite a bit better after the opinions. I guess the real warning sign would be if my kids start to be affected (which has not been an issue).
Three cheers for water and Tylenol before bed.

I would never take Tylenol when drinking. Tylenol prevents the liver from properly breaking down alcohol and can lead you to vomit.

yeah Tylenol before bed is bad news, promotes liver damage like crazy. Aspirin already promotes stomach bleeding, and thinning your blood w/ alcohol and taking aspirin = more risk. Same with ibuprofen.

Just drink as much water as you possibly can before you go to bed (and by that I mean 64oz if you can!), and maybe take an extra multivitamin. If you wake up early and fuzzy in the morning to go pee way before time to get up (drinking the extra water helps with this), go ahead and take a couple ibuprofen as the alcohol should have made its way mostly through your system and taking it a couple hours before you "really" get up will get a head start on any headache you may have.

Ibuprofen is a little better than Tylenol. It may be a blood thinner as well, but at least it doesn't prevent the break down of alcohol. But either way, medicines and alcohol should not be mixed.

As for what to drink: Gatorade and other such drinks are a little better than just water because it will replace some of the electrolytes that you lose as your kidneys pump out water from your body (as alcohol is a diuretic)

 

[2Xtreme21]

Not to say I don't condone your actions, but what if your 5 year old has some kind of emergency at night-- would you be OK enough to handle it? I don't think calling 911 while black-out wasted saying that your kid is sick, and them showing up to your house to find you as such would fit very nicely with the emergency personnel.