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Did your parents give you alcohol as a child? Sips from their beers? Small glasses of wine? When you were a teenager, did they buy alcohol for you? Were they very strict and not allow any alcohol at all?
What was your drinking experience as a teenager? What was your drinking behavior through your college age and early adulthood? Do you feel your parents' behavior surrounding alcohol influenced your drinking? If they allowed you to drink as a child, did that lead you to drink more or less, etc?
Were any of your parents alcoholics?
How is your drinking now?
My parents were alcoholics. For as far back as I can remember (three years old,) I was allowed to sip off their beers. My stepdad is not an alcoholic but he is Italian. He allowed me to have a little bit of wine mixed with water with dinner whenever I wanted. After the first time, I never wanted it.
I drank three times in high school. When I turned 21, I had no idea what I was doing. I have no tolerance for alcohol and get drunk on one drink. I've made a fool of myself a few times. Because of this and my history with my parents, drinking never became my thing.
Now, I might drink on an extremely rare occasion.
What was your drinking experience as a teenager? What was your drinking behavior through your college age and early adulthood? Do you feel your parents' behavior surrounding alcohol influenced your drinking? If they allowed you to drink as a child, did that lead you to drink more or less, etc?
Were any of your parents alcoholics?
How is your drinking now?
My parents were alcoholics. For as far back as I can remember (three years old,) I was allowed to sip off their beers. My stepdad is not an alcoholic but he is Italian. He allowed me to have a little bit of wine mixed with water with dinner whenever I wanted. After the first time, I never wanted it.
I drank three times in high school. When I turned 21, I had no idea what I was doing. I have no tolerance for alcohol and get drunk on one drink. I've made a fool of myself a few times. Because of this and my history with my parents, drinking never became my thing.
Now, I might drink on an extremely rare occasion.