Anyone else teetotal?

[oogieboogie]

I've drank my last true drink back in 1997. After that, I just had no desire to drink. If I'm going to a steakhouse or a swanky dinner, I'll have a glass of wine, but that's so far in between.

I'm definitely a water & tea person. I don't even do coffee that much!

 

[Dan Murphy]

Pretty clos eto it, not 100% though. Maybe a few beers during the year, a few glasses of wine. If I had none, I'd be fine. Don't ask me how much before I was 21 though.

 

[MelessaG]

Count me in! A member of my family is an alcoholic and, in early college, I caught myself following that same pattern (I have an addictive personality as it is) so, I stopped drinking from that time forward. Now if I could only give up chocolate...NAH!

 

[jipsy]

Umm, according to your profile you are 19 years old. How much drinking could you have really done?

 

[onecoolmama]

Originally posted by Dan Murphy
Don't ask me how much before I was 21 though.

Dan Murphy - your wild side is showeing more and more. First Fist fights..now drinking under age...hmmmm..WE'll have to think of more questions that will bring this side out!


No, I never have. I made the decision at 5 years old and I guesss I am just a determind person.

 

[NMAmy]

DH is a teetotaler and has been for the last 12 years. I, on the other hand, really enjoy the occasional beer in the summertime or glass of wine or champagne with dinner. He doesn't mind being my designated driver--I don't drive even though I've only had one drink along with a meal. I'd rather skip the drink if he's not there and know that there's no chance that something could happen while I'm driving. I'm WAY past the point of drinking to get drunk, though, and I usually only have one drink. If I have two--that means I'm really in party mode!

 

[I_Know_You2!]

Originally posted by jipsy
Umm, according to your profile you are 19 years old. How much drinking could you have really done?

So, you have never known any teen-age alcoholics? Maybe you should ask Drew Barrymore how much she had imbibed by the tender age of 19.

Clean and sober 13 years here.

 

[minniepumpernickel]

I went through a stage when I was 18, or 19 where I partied a lot. I probably could have drank a six pack a day! I realized how destructive it was and just walked away.

Now I drink occassionally at parties, or social events. I just don't have the desire to drink a lot ever again. I'm glad that I'm one of the people that had the ability to just walk away!

Good luck to eveyone!

 

[damo]

As an aside, how many of those who rarely drink, have children who are the same?

Mine are the same, so far.

 

[browneyes]

I very rarely drink. I've never been drunk before either.

 

[coliebird]

Occassionally I enjoy a frozen mudslide or a pina colada if I am out, but it is tops 3 drinks a year. I've never been much of a drinker, even in high school when everyone else was partying I did not partake, can't stand the taste of beer.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

I'll be honest... ahh nope. I had a couple years where I was probably drinking too much. I am not that way anymore but I do enjoy a glass of wine with dinner (maybe more if it is a special dinner), and I can't eat a chicken wing without a beer.

To each, his/her own.

 

[4cruisin]

I do not drink. I used to have a drink at parties etc but I don't anymore. Don't really care for the taste of alcohol. DH may have 2 or 3 beers a year but that's it. Doesn't bother me if somebody else drinks though as long as it's responsibly.

 

[Keli]

Neither my dh or I drink but I think my dh consumed a lifetime's worth in the years before he was legal, lol. Thankfully he's changed his ways.

 

[s&k'smom]

I actually never really liked the taste. I did drink once for courage and after that, and with my family history, I figured I had better not! I prefer to 12 step through life!

 

[Disney Ella]

I stopped about 10 years ago when it got to the point when even one drink made me feel nauseous and exhausted. I was never a big drinker to begin with but that sick feeling convinced me it wasn't worth it.

 

[MelessaG]

Originally posted by jipsy
Umm, according to your profile you are 19 years old. How much drinking could you have really done?

Since your post follows mine, did you mean me? My profile correctly lists my DOB as 1972. Sadly, that puts me way over the age of 19. (which was my heaviest drinking year, come to think of it)

 

[grinningghost]

I rarely drink anymore. I have MS and my equilibrium is bad enough without it.

I will drink a wine cooler now and then during the summer. I also enjoy those frozen alcoholic drinks, but I could just as easily drink a "virgin" frozen drink and be very happy with it. Sometimes I just like to loosen up a bit.

 

[luvwinnie]

I used to have maybe a drink or two a month (mixed girly drinks) but now I'm on a medication (methotrexate) and cannot drink at all.

 

[WDWLVR]

DH and I are both non-drinkers. My drink of choice was Pepsi but I even gave that up about a year ago. Now it is water or sweet tea.