Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Wino Mommy



Saw this on facebook today right next to another post about how one of my friends wishes there was a margarita truck that drove around the neighborhood every afternoon ringing its bell so she could run after it like a kid running after the ice cream man. (I'll save my comments on that for a later time.)

About the above, me thinks Mommy is trying awfully hard to convince herself that she is a wonderful person despite her burgeoning drinking problem. Poor Mommy. Poor Mommy's Husband. Poor Mommy's children.  Her next line of rhetoric will probably be that she's actually a Better Mommy because she drinks.  That's the natural progression.

I always wondered about people who could post things like this in public or laugh about how drunk they got last weekend. Are there really people out there who aren't ashamed of how much they drink?I was never that person.

There's my sign.

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  1. At one point I was that person. The one who posted photos of the empty bottles showing how good a time we might have had (of course, it was all a blur).
    But the whole mommy wine thing never sat well with me. I could see how it was eroding my own life.

    Sad sad sad

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    1. I was always in the game of cover up so no one would know how bad I was.

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  2. It is sad.
    And I am always sad when I see the posts on FB about the big wine glasses, etc.
    In my early drinking years I would laugh after a fun party where I drank too much. Later, my hubs didn't think they were so funny. And finally, neither did I.
    No FB book during those times, thank goodness.
    xo
    Wendy

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    1. Wendy, I don't remember ever laughing about my drinking. Yes, thank God, there was no facebook at that time, however, the one and only thing I was disciplined about when I was drinking was absolutely no drunk dialing and no drunk facebooking.

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  3. Poor Mommy indeed. I'm busy creating some sober memes. I'm fed up with the winebulance, the wineglass attachment in the shower, and the tap that pours red wine instead of water. I'm fighting back.

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    1. Great idea! Sober memes are much needed!

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    2. I can't wait to see what you come up with, WB, I'll post them all over fb in retaliation.

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  4. Seriously! Even at my peak of Wino Mommy, I *knew* there was nothing good or even funny about Wino and Mommy in the same sentence, and I was definitely ashamed of drinking and how much I drank in front of or around my kids. Wino Mommy, argh. Not today, thank God.

    Hugs,

    SR

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    1. I ponder the "rabid social conscious," I can imagine her with her fifth glass of wine waving around in hand, as she types ferociously on facebook, offending almost everyone she knows and making them cringe. All the while they're thinking, "She has to be drinking to post this."

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  5. I think we need to amend this meme and re-post it. It should say, "Mommy drinks wine. Mommy thinks she is intelligent, witty and independent. She loves her family and cares for others, but not enough to give up wine. While drinking wine, Mommy imposes her incoherent idealism on others, repeatedly, then picks fights when others don't agree. The next day, she can't remember why no one is talking to her.

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  6. Well... There was time when I posted my drunken photos. There was time when I thought it was very funny. Then I grew up.

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  7. You know, I found myself thinking the same thing this week. I kept seeing these fb posts about mom's drinking, kids making mom's drink ect. SAD...that is what it is.

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