HOW TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ALCOHOLIC AND A SOCIAL DRINKER

This might seem like a no brainer but it really isn't. There are plenty of functional alcoholics walking around looking like they're social drinkers. Why should you care you ask? You should care because you don't want him to be your baby's father or mother, don't want him to be the man/woman you fall in love with, don't want to waste days, months, years to discover you've invested in a relationship where the next drink is more important than you are, don't want to get used or abused, don't want to go broke trying to fix someone. Enough? O.K. Here's how you can tell the difference between an alcoholic and a social drinker: As opposed to a social drinker an alcoholic 1. Wouldn't consider leaving half a glass of wine on the table, they'd drink up and order another or plan to go somewhere else that drinks are being served. 2. Thinks every party, birthday (even for the three year old), picnic, walk, event, lunch, dinner (and breakfast but you won't know), movie, sporting event live or on TV and just about every other activity is a time alcohol should be served and not a little but a lot. 3....

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SEVEN REASONS WHY SOBER IS SEXY

We've all been in situations where someone around us is drunk or high on drugs, prescription or illegal, and we have to listen to them or drive them somewhere or they're in our house and we can't get away and they are just stupid and obnoxious. Don't you just love it when someone whose brain is clearly not firing on all pistons is tellingĀ  you in a too loud voice about something they have just become the world's expert on or, even better, when you happen to be the recipient of why their lives are so horrible, their luck so bad, their sadness so unbearable that they have to slur their words and drink more just so you'll understand and maybe even start crying, the blubbering kind of crying while they tell you because they know you really want to know? Oh, and then there are the ones who think they're so sexy they just can't believe their good fortune at being the sexiest woman or man at the party or in the bar or restaurant or anywhere they think it's perfectly appropriate to get up close and personal, bad breath and all, to let you know just what they...

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