Hello all,
This might be a silly question, but as a man with a pregnant wife, I am contemplating giving up alcohol for the foreseeable future as of right now with the intention of simply not wanting to add that experience to my future daughter’s life. I probably drink once every few months and it’s not a problem for me. I don’t feel like thinking of it in terms of like “oh is it worth it” because I think to myself, yeah I could just not do this anymore and be entirely okay. But I’m curious about what everyone else’s experience is like.
Do you feel like quitting enabled you to do things in fatherhood better? Did it make you more present? What did you experience as a result?
Thank you all!
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oh i am curious about this too, i dont really drink but may have a bit of a smoking issue, canabis and tobacco. Both of which i prolly ought to stop eitherway
If you drink once every few months and it’s not a problem what do you expect to gain? You’re not going to start seeing the future and triple your income from skipping a drink 4x a year.
If you drank in excess frequently and got hungover a lot then yeah it will literally change your entire experience. You’ll be a lot more present, capable to watch a kid, won’t have to deal with caring for a kid hungover, get better sleep, basically everything will be easier and more worthwhile.
I’d say if you drink every few months you don’t have anything to worry about. That will have such a little impact to anything,
I mostly gained weight.
Difficult to say with fatherhood, but since my teenage years, I’ve never touched alcohol.
I’m certainly in way, way better shape than most men, that’s all I can say.
I learned that alcohol is actually a poison and you can’t even gauge how much harm you’re really doing to your body until you got a year without it. A drink occasionally is fine. Routine consumption is just not worth it if you can help it