What's the point of drinking, the point of being DRUNK?!

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Kudistos Megistos said:

PearlJam said:
I think if you have 2-4 drinks a day, you're an alcoholic. That seems a bit much, one a day or less is fine. You don't need to get drunk off your ass to be an alcoholic, the fact that you need it daily is enough. If you live in France or the Napa Valley and you were just raised to drink a glass of whine with your food everyday that's fine. But needing a buzz everyday is a bad habit.

He said most nights, not all nights. Evidently, she can live without it.

Not to continue bickering, but being an alcoholic doesn't necessarily entail having the necessity to drink every single night.  With the research I've just done today, it seems to be a very broad topic that doesn't have a specific definition that will declare if somebody is or isn't an alcoholic.  While my mom doesn't do a lot of the more "severe" things that some alcoholics would do, she defiantly qualifies for a couple of the signs of possible alcoholism.

It isn't just the fact that she has 2-4 drinks that irks me, if my dad goes out with his co-workers and has 2-4 drinks just to have fun, woopty doo.  It is the fact that she is doing this several nights per week in what I feel is to deal with stress, and that it is affecting family relationships within our house.

Regardless, call it whatever you wish, but what I consider to be drinking too often has affected our household.