Alcoholic?

I agree with Steve.

I too enjoy a couple glasses of wine or a couple beers with dinner.

Donald L here. I've had alot of experience with alcoholics. A glass or two doesn't qualify. When you start wanting to get drunk--everytime you drink--then your daughter will have somethng to worry about.

Nope. To be an alcoholic you have to get smashed every night.

I agree with all of the comments above. Having a few glasses of fine does not make you an alcoholic, it is when you drink so much and get wasted and become uncontrolleably drunk. I enjoy the occasional glass of wine with dinner or 1 or two cocktails with friends and I can honestly say, that I have never been nor never will be drunk.

If you can stop drinking whenever you want you are probably not an alcoholic.

Thanks everyone! I really did not think I was becoming an alcoholic, but my daughter did have some valid points. I really do love my wine and usually have it every evening but I honestly do not need it.

It doesn't sound like it to me. I think if you had to have it then yes, but you proved otherwise, so no I don't think you are becoming an addict.

no dear,you are not an alcoholic..
you can become an alcohilic in 2 ways...
1,hereditary(like i am)
alcoholism runs in my family bigtime..i myself am an alcohlic...ive learned to control it myself,im one of the lucky oness..
i used to down bottles of straight vodka daily...until one day i played football in the presence of the porcelin god for hours,that day forward,i decided i would never get that way again.and its beeen 16 years or more since i have..
i try to stay away from vodka and when i drink its usually only when i go to the casino,the moment i start getting buzzed hard,i stop drinkig and switch to coffee or soda..
the 2nd qway you can become an alcoholic.is when you enjoy drinking so much,you can functuion without it..for example..
the moment yuou wake up,instead of coffee or juice,you hit the botttle..
you drink all day,hiding it at work or wherever and try to disguise your drinking ..
well,you get the idea..
so no dear,your fine,you are far fom an alchy

my bad,i meant to say above is when you cant function without it,not can
but im sure you got the idea

No, you are not an alcoholic just because you like a glass of wine at night. If you were drinking the wine but then later having a mixed drink, or drinking a whole bottle by yourself then I would think you may have a problem. Wine is good for you. It helps to lower cholesterol, supposedly. 1-2 glasses at dinner time is just fine. If you can't go without, or you start with wine but drink something stronger as you go on in the evening, then you have a problem.

what Risa said...

TRICK OR TREAT A TEN TO KEEP

Not at all.

Nope, my parents always had wine with and after dinner. No biggie.. Its no worse than having a ciggie after dinner. We all need something to relax us at the end of the day..

And Medically it was proven that having 1 to 2 glasses of wine actually helps your heart!

Tell your daughter its for your medical condition! :)

If a person HAS to drink on a daily basis (even a small amount) then it is alcoholism. If you can go days (or longer) without then you should be fine.

As an alcoholic, your body would crave and insist on it. If you can go without, you should be okay. On the other hand, people don't become alcoholics who never drink.

There's something else to consider, something I never knew about until it happened to my mother. Drinking just one or two drinks or glasses of any kind of alcohol every single day for 20 years (or every other day for 40, perhas too...) can cause alcoholic dimentia. It has another name, but that's what it is and that's what my mother has. She never had more than one or two drinks at night, between 6 and 9 p.m.

It affects women more than men. And, actually, if you started drinking at...15, then you could have this by the time you're 35 or 40. (And...when you see homeless women who act a bit strange/forgetful this could be why.)

I don't know why no one ever talks about this! My dad had Alzheimer's and at least there were drugs that helped his condition. There are no drugs for a pickled brain.

I think you may have an alcohol problem. The fact that your daughter is concern about the amount you drink tells me someone else is being affect by your drinking. And my guess its more of your behavior when having that second or third glass of wine then the amount of alcohol you drink. Alcoholism is a progressive illness so one don't have to drink or be smashed everyday to be an alcoholic. Being a little bit alcoholic is like being a little bit pregnant, either you are or you are not but they are both progressive. Now if you are you have to make that decision to do something about the illness. (or not)

To clarify myself.. like being pregnant, alcoholism is usually not seen in the early stages.