No, you don’t have a problem, tell your doc to stuff it.

This. I like wine with dinner. I like to have a beer in my hand when I’m grilling. Since my kid was born 2+ years ago I can count on my hand the number of nights I was good and truly drunk, and only once in that stretch did I drink enough to have any real impact on the following day. I’m 35 and I’ve cut way back on…

I hear ya. I think I used to drink more than what you described, though. When I drank, I would pat myself on the back when I “took a night off”. If I went 3-4 nights, I had a “low-key” week of adulting. I rose in my professional career, started a family, the whole nine yards, and was purely a “social” drinker. All…

I could have written your letter,wow! That first sentence is a question I’ve wondered about for a while,because your doctor,or some chart,will tell you that if you have over (x) amount of drinks in a given time,uh oh,you’re an alcoholic! During the week,I may have a glass (or two) of wine with dinner, and on…

Strictly health-wise, yeah that is too much. Add them all up, add up the calories in each one, for caloric reasons alone it’s too much and the calories are not the only bad thing in alcohol. That’s why your doctor says that, because technically that is too much for your body. You won’t fall down dead but it’s…

I am the same way. I think the ‘problem’ arose when I stopped doing those things. I took a week without drinking my normal, casual amount and it was fucking DIFFICULT. I didn’t realize how much I depended on those drinks.

If you can go without them, then there’s really no problem. If you find that you can’t, then there…