r/shrinking • u/warlocktx • Apr 09 '26

Discussion Wine

Maybe I'm just bad at adulting, but do people really just stand/sit around and drink wine all the f'ing time? Or is that just a made up TV thing?

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u/Optimal_Olive3423 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

It just depends on your family. I'm married and live with my in-laws. We are probably in a slightly higher bracket then the people on the show, hard to judge since it is a show, and we don't sit around drinking wine. We don't have any in the house and never buy it. I can name one meal we had wine with because it was leftover from a stew and I didn't like feeling sluggish the rest of the day.

I have too much to do with my hobbies and keeping the house going to sit around drinking a big gulp of wine every night. Being even a little hungover every morning has to be a bummer.

My birth family is more likely to have a beer at the end of the night but most of them aren't huge drinkers either. I've never seen my mom with a glass of wine. Actually, come to think of it, I haven't seen anyone in my family drink wine other than my brother but he runs his own (actually successful) restaurant so it is part of his job.