I have a group of friends who love to drink. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m ok with drinking if it’s for an occasion or for social settings like gatherings, chilling after a hard day at work etc.
But I do not like to get dead drunk, nor do I like the feeling of hangovers the next morning and having to spend the next day doing nothing but recover.
On the other hand, my friends are very into hard liquor and drinking till they are gone. There is also no option for me to drink less when I’m with them, as some of them will keep pouring drinks or end up ordering a lot of drinks that we can’t finish and eventually have to split them up to finish since the drinks are expensive.
I enjoy their company, but I really do not enjoy drinking too much. When I refuse their offer for more drinks or cook up an excuse that I am not attending their drinking party, it seems as if I’m a party pooper or not making the effort to stay as friends.
I cherish all my friends but drinking is not really my thing. The good thing is that they aren’t a bad influence in other ways cos they work hard at their jobs etc, just the part about drinking that I can’t see eye to eye, though I never made it known to them.
What would you guys do in my shoes?