Originally Posted by
LaFemme Hey Maryjane and welcome!
I was raised to believe that a normal part of adulthood was to drink wine every night with dinner. It helped me justify my drinking for a long time.
Not meaning to split hairs, but respectfully for some cultures it IS normal to drink wine every night at dinner. (I've even witnessed a mother allowing her 7 year old son have a thimble full).
The difference is education and raising people/children to understand that alcohol should be an "accompaniment" to a gastro experience - not a means to an end.
It is our hedonistic addictive personalities that allow the demon to enter.