Alright for some!
Here's a little observation from this evening. I stayed a couple of nights with my daughter in Liverpool recently and we had a few cocktails in the hotel. We said we must try making them, so this evening we made a Pina Colada (not too successful). My partner, R, who isn't communicating at all with me since I confronted the issue of her drinking and started al-anon, came into the kitchen and asked what we were doing, when we told her 'making cocktails' her reply was 'it's alright for some.'
So we are having all the fun, after years of hidden Vodka and wine bottles and violent ugly scenes-never once the hint of sharing any of that drink that was consumed secretly-with all the consequences for the emotional wellbeing of our family.
Some hipocrisy there?