Drinking and Dating

“[I]f one of you isn’t drinking, does that make things weird?” Maura Kelly wonders. She “quit drinking years and years ago” (although she does still “drink a little — a glass of wine, maybe once a month, during a nice dinner out”), and has “come to prefer getting-to-know-you sobriety.” Do you guys want to talk about this same thing? Imbalanced date success/failure stories?

“I used to think that I was at my best when I was liquored up, but now I prefer myself sober,” she explains. “I think better, I don’t say (or do) things I’ll regret later, and I handle myself with more sangfroid.” The only thing I know for sure I’m better at when I’m drinking is dancing. The rest is worse. Oh, and saying out loud the exact thing I swore to myself I wouldn’t say and, in fact, practiced not-saying at home before I went out. I am excellent at that.