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Giving Up Drink

  • 15-05-2009 7:10am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,
    Basically I want to give up drink for a period of approx 3 months or even altogether for my mental, physical and financial well being.
    I'm 34 male single & for the last 16 years or so I have spent most weekends getting Pi**ed and spending all my money. I have a trip to go on in August which if I keep going the way I am I will not be able to afford to go.
    I really want to give up drink for a while anyway but am not sure how to go about it. I vow most weeks not to drink this weekend but then Sat evening comes around and inevitably end up going out mad on the lash on the Sat & Sunday. Any time I do stay away from drink I feel great, get mad into the gym and am flying in work but then that goes out the window when I hit the pub.
    have mortgage, car good job etc, having been working full time for 12 years - but have no savings as any spare cash goes on going out at weekends
    My main concerns/fears are - if I give up drink - is that the end of my sex life because any interaction with females has always been through drink. Also is it the end of my social life as people don't seem to want you around when going out if you're not drinking?



    Anybody been through this? Any words of advice.


Comments

  • #2
    star-pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    Only you can stop you from drinking.

    I've been off alcohol for the last 15months because of meds I'm on I can't drink. Does it bother me? The occasional time where I'd like a drink to take the edge off. Does it affect my social life? No. People always think it weird you're not drinking, but so what, it's your choice. I still have fun on nights out, still hang out with drunken friends lol.

    A break would do you good, so just try it. As regarding attracting the opposite sex, *not* being blind drunk is a good thing!


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