When do/did you stop partying? - Page 2

First off, thanks for all of your responses! Very cool to know there are others going through (or have gone through) this before. I almost expected to get reamed out for being a complete lush...

I know what you mean. I really love my group of friends (about the same: 10 or 15 in my close circle, about 50 in the extended circle), and have known some of them for about 10 years, and can honestly see myself knowing a good number of them for the rest of my life.

Good to hear. We have some couples getting married recently, and the kids are starting to come. We now do things like where we have football parties at someone's house instead of a bar, so that the parents can bring their kids. We live in Florida, so it's nice to relax in the pool, have a beer, watch the game, and also have your friends hang out with everyone else while also spending time with their kids.

And you're right, the hangovers are getting worse. A lot worse.

Just curious, do these things that you do on the weekends include your friends, or is it more of a "you & the wife" type thing? And what do you do?

My initial post might've been misleading. I'm not planning on quitting drinking, just the consistent partying aspect. And even then, just slowing it down to major occassions. My problem is that I usually don't buy the keg, it's just something that assumed to be there when someone in my group hosts a party. Along with lots of liquor. And then I just start having a good time, and it escalates from there....

Reading other's posts, I guess some people consider "partying" to mean something else, like harder drugs etc. But everyone I hang out with just equates partying to drinking.

We usually do the same. There's the occassional night where we hit up the clubs/bars downtown, but it's become less frequent. But yeah, most of our activities revolve around drinking - even something like going to the beach.

And yes, there's nothing better than hearing "Open Bar". People's ears perk up like a cat hearing the can opener when someone says that!

Couldn't have said it better. We've actually tried to think up stuff to do together, but it always comes back to drinking. Recently got together with about 10 - 12 others to plan a trip, and we're going on a cruise - where we'll be drinking of course. It's not that we can't do anything without drinking, it just seems to always be involved....

Used to do this way too much, not so much anymore. And we only did it on the weekends, because of work/school during the week. Although, last night we were at a bar (for about 3 hours). Two friends & I didn't have to work today. So we grabbed a 18 pack, and went back to his place to drink and play some XBox. Surprisingly, we didn't kill all of the beer. It was only 6 per person, but we just didn't want to feel like crap today.

We used to incur a good amount of "drama" from people that couldn't hold their liquor. Fights, people trying to drive home smashed, girls crying, etc. But I honestly can't remember the last time that happened. It had to have been at least 3 or 4 years ago that anyone did anything considered regrettable that couldn't be laughed at the next day.

Funny you bring that up. There's a girl in our group who just started dating a guy who's never had a drop of alcohol in his life. He seems like a pretty good guy, and doesn't seem to mind hanging out with the rest of us when we go out at night to a bar. I'm going to have to ask him next time I see him what he does for fun. Should be interesting....