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Old 06-22-2006, 09:38 AM
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I would be curious to see the results of a poll of the members....

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I would be curious to see the results of a poll of the members....
mean & nasty, happy then sleepy, (or just plain sleepy), quiet and peaceful, loud and boisterous, talkative and shallow, talkative and deep? Any I might not have thought of?
I'm curious,too.....curious enough to start a new thread!

Opps...gotta go.....................back later to tell you what kind of A mine is......haha!
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Old 06-22-2006, 10:05 AM
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My A, when he drinks is Weepy then sleepy.
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Old 06-22-2006, 10:17 AM
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My ex was mean & nasty at the 3rd drink
Loud & boisterous at the 2nd
Happy at the 1st
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Mine was all of the above, depending on what he drank, how much, full moon, new moon, good day, bad day, raining, sunny ....... and on and on and on.
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Consistently inconsistent.
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Old 06-22-2006, 10:58 AM
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Confident and Intellectual the first few double shots of vodka
with a beer in front as a cover.
Still thinking he is intellectual a few more later....
Repeating himself at almost complete drunkeness....
Argumentive as far as admitting he was drunk right before passing out.
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Number One A it would depend on how much.... but all of them basically

Number Two A was loud and would get very Angry

Number Three A was usually happy and Loud, would talk alot of jiberish stuff
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Mine is much like Jazz's
Happy at the 1st
Loud & boisterous by the 3rd
Mean & nasty by the 4th drink (which lasted the longest)
Sleepy somewhere between the 10th and 12th
EVERY DAY...RAIN OR SHINE!

I so like my life now!!!
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Old 06-22-2006, 11:02 AM
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About 7 or 8 years ago, mine was happy, funny, sleepy. As the years went on, less happy and funny, more mean and nasty.

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Old 06-22-2006, 11:30 AM
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mean, syco, waking me up at night to hollar some more... not caring what he says in front of who,
reaks through the body of the Vodka, snores, snorkes and bobbs his head....

Man i am sure glad I'm hanging around !
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Old 06-22-2006, 11:41 AM
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My Ah gets chatty at first drink, by third thinks he's the most brilliant man in the world, at the 5th he is hard to follow as he skips around and thinks your an idiot for not understanding-he's also extremely hyper (Funny, educated and intellcetual people cant follow him) unintelligent and other people drinking too think he's brilliant.
By the 7th beer, he's angry, selfish and obnoxious, by beer 10, he's only had 3 and he wants to go somewhere and any more tahn that he tends to disappear.
In the morning he's angry
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Old 06-22-2006, 12:09 PM
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Much like Patty's. My AH was also extremely generous the more he drank. He got very, very generous there at the end, buying rounds at the bars, etc.

He's also a very funny guy, and no one made me laugh the way he did. He had that effect on a lot of people; though I must say the sense of humor had all but disappeared at the end, being replaced by bitterness.
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Oh Denny I forgot about that...how the heck could I really...
He was Mr. Got Rocks.....buying round after round...if I was there
and it was on rare occassion that I was...I put the kabash on it....
that man could spend hundreds in one night.....no wonder they loved him!
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When my AH drinks, he is very quiet, you could probably push him off a cliff or something. He never got violent or nasty luckily.
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when my ex would drink, he would get weepy, crying, sad, etc. that was also usually when he would "confess" to things he had lied about.
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Hey Meli....don't get any ideas there my friend....lol JK
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Old 06-22-2006, 07:07 PM
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Mine used to be a quiet drinker...in front of the TV with a few beers watching a ballgame. Was not a problem, and I didn't even notice or care.

Then......by the time he moved out he would come home from work with a 24pk of beer under each arm about every-other night-one on the patio and the other he would have to put into the refrigerator and maybe a few in the freezer. Got so he would pop open and down 3 beers before he went upstairs to change. He'd be strung as tight as a drum as he was drinking them. He was terribly cranky at best and hateful and mean and verbally abusive and throwing things,etc at worst (a few times he and our son, then in his late teens, almost got into it or maybe did). He had blackouts and told us we were lying about the things he said and did. He would drink all evening and then go up to bed and pass out. I had to move to another room due to the snoring, sweating, (terrible sleep apnea when he stopped breathing), leg twitches....then he started having nightmares and swinging his arms around and yell......he punched me in the eye once in a dead sleep (both of us) and "karate chop moves" (don't know where those were from! haha). ETC.,ETC.,ETC..........

He has become irritable, anxious, impatient, angry and forgetful......but he can still be charming (esp. in public) if he needs to be. Oh.......and arrogant and selfish. That is part of the "new him"....I liked the old one soooo much better!

sorry...I see I got carried away!
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mine i think was a sneaky drinker, just sat in front of the tv, i think, he knew that his drinking was not allowed in the house or in front of the kids, he respected us to where we did not see him drink and i never really knew when he did. his doc was crack and he became like hodini, disappearing for days.
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Mean, passes out, snores loudly, wakes up mean, smells of vodka all day and starts over again the next night, more nights than not. Maybe less often since he started trying to quit but now he's incredibly moody all the time. I'm walking on eggshells but I've got my boots on.
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Old 06-23-2006, 03:37 AM
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6 beers later, mean & nasty
8 beers later, downright cruel
10 beers later, running around the house talking to himself
12 beers later, going out to buy drugs

For the last time I might add....I tossed him out!

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