Recently my friends have been unkind to me. It started with me having a box of wine under the table and having a drink or two to my dinner on a thursday night and them thinking it was weird to drink wine with dinner. I come from a home where drinking wine to lunch and dinner was common.
I'm in college so I drink almost every weekend and sometimes between weekends. I rarely drink until I pass out or get really drunk. I usually drink to the point where I'm much more social and talkative but always in control, which usually is 2-3 glasses of wine. I'm not a fan of other alcohol, I usually drink wine because of the taste.
My friend M also loves wines, so sometimes I invite her on wine evenings where one of us brings a new type of wine to try out. This happens once or twice every other weekend depending on my schedule. It's one of my favorite hobbies.
However, another friend of mine has told me that I have a drinking problem which I responded to with saying I never get drunk, I don't have the incentive to get drunk when it's more the taste I like, just like soda. She also brought this up among my other friends and now they're berating me about my alcoholconsumption to the point that I'm not even invited to some of the social gatherings that includes alcohol.
I've tried telling them that it hurts to feel excluded like that but they insist on leaving me out which extremely angers me and I feel like I have no other choice then to cut contact with them and make new friends.
I don't know what to do to make them stop. I don't get heavily drunk on the regular. I drink wine because of it's taste and also see it as a hobby. It has never impaired me in my life. If I have one glass of wine thursday night it doesn't affect me the next day since I don't get drunk or hung over.
I'm so tired of defending myself. What would be the appropriate action here?
Tldr: Drinking wine is my hobby. Doesn't impair or impact my life in any way. Friends are not inviting me to social events that include alcohol and I feel left out and hurt.
Submitted October 02, 2018 at 03:15PM by sorrycassandra https://ift.tt/2QnT8Lm
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