First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes the martinis!!!! That’s why women get married, right?
Well, it may not be the reason we marry but it certainly is what us ladies do after getting married.
In a marriage slash alcohol study, wives are bigger drinkers than single women. HAR HAR HAR snort. But wait, it’s not why you think…
The study showed that men drink less with their drinking buddies after getting married. Reason being that they are spending more time with their wives. When they spend time with their wives, they drink. And when the husbands drink, their wives tend to drink with them. Therefore, wives drink more because they are drinking with their husbands. Um, yeah.
In a nutshell, wives are drinking more based on the amount of alcohol their spouse is drinking. So, are they drinking more? Maybe on average based on past studies because those findings have concluded that single folks are downing the juice. So before when you were single, you were crazy on the rye. Now that you are married you are…well, still hitting the bottle. Results may vary.
Obviously, this study dove deep into single, married and divorced men and women and asked about their alcohol consuming habits. I found it funny that no one asked about men and women who have children. Frankly, that’s the study I’m really interested in.
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Sarah
08/21/2012
Thank you! I would hypothesize married tend to drink more because married women also tend to be mothers.
Whereas married men tend to drink less, because the wives/mothers (if they are like me, that is) tend to say things like, “You think you’re going out? And doing what? Do you not remember the last time you went out with ‘Jim’ and stayed out until 4am? Do you think I’m going to let you out of carpool duty this time?”
Lance
08/21/2012
True
Although my wife is far from a lush. She usually handles the social drinking while I handle thte drinking and errand running as a result.
I see a lot of truth in this. Plus, every woman on twitter and facebook is smashed, at least if you believe what they write.
Andrea
08/21/2012
they need to ask just HOW single the single drinkers are. because I know that if I’m happy single, I don’t drink that much. but if I’ve just gone through a breakup, I’m an alcoholic. I anticipate that’s how I’ll be married. if I’m happy, I’ll drink normally. getting left for a gold digging whore? alcoholic.