After agonizing over my decision to say "No" to potential guests, I had to follow through with the actual saying "No", so I made the phone call, and although I noticed (imagined?) a cooler tone as we agreed that camping elsewhere would be better, and we could meet up etc etc....I did stop myself from babbling on trying to excuse/explain/rationalize...
After all, "No" is a complete sentence, right?
I've never been very good at saying it. So I've either ended up doing a whole lot of stuff that I never wanted to, OR, I've beaten myself up about saying the N word....and both scenarios have involved heavy wine drinking before, during and after.
In fact the Wine Witch has been floating around for a couple of days. It seems that "setting boundaries" is a trigger.....
I said "No" to going to a party last night too.
I've put parties into two categories, the first is where people want to get together, catch up and have fun, and alcohol happens to be served, the second is where people get together with the main purpose of drinking alcohol.
The first, I can handle. The second, I avoid.
Last night was a Birthday Party used as an excuse to drink. My husband went alone. He didn't mind, but I still spent a hour or so, stewing about whether I should have gone, to "prove" that I can do parties sober, or whether it looked odd that my husband was there without me, or whether people would think that I was weird, or rude......
And then I remembered what I used to do to shut the noise up in my head.
I used to drink.
Fuck it.
I went to the Movies. On my own.
I saw "Trumbo". Which I recommend. It was about two hours of complete distraction. I got home, made a cup of tea and went to bed.
My husband came home this morning. He was slightly hungover. Yes the party was fun. So and So said "Hi", what did you do last night? A movie? Sounds good, what was it about? A writer? No car chases? No, you're right, I wouldn't have wanted to see it, where's the advil?
Wine Witch floated away.
Perfect. I just wish I could read this post before I headed down to the party. Our party fell into the second category. We totally got together last night to get drunk. I am sort of starting to hate December this year.
ReplyDeleteHang in there xxxxx
DeleteGood on you for saying no. You need to look after yourself. Your friends will get over it. A x
ReplyDeleteThank you. They either will or won't! I know that worrying won't help, and it was the right decision.x
DeleteYes, way to go!
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact that you took yourself to a movie is very cool!
xo
Wendy
I'm going to do it again! It was fun, and there are some movies that my husband isn't interested in (no car chases/shoot outs etc, lol)
DeleteI still say no to those parties. There is no point. It makes me dislike my friends when they get drunk and sloppy and say things they shouldn't. And it reminds me of at a mess I must have been. Shudder.
ReplyDeleteThat's great decision making! Hope you don't mind, I'm coping and taking myself to the movies before the year is out.
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