Men of Reddit: do you dislike alcohol? If so, why?

36 comments

1. Wouldn’t say dislike but not big on it either. Don’t like losing control of myself

2. Yes. The taste is horrible

3. I am celebrating 30 days. I miss it, but it was ruining my self-esteem and I was walking down the path my parents and grandparents did. I hope I’m breaking the cycle.

4. No but I don’t like the taste of a majority of it.

5. I’ve never tasted it and refused up to now at 26 years old

   Many life destroying alcoholics in my family from DUIs to wasting their kids college fund on booze to actively needing it to even have a simple conversation over breakfast due to anxiety

   I’m terrified I’ll like alcohol

6. Hate the taste, and I want to be in complete control and not have my inhibitions lowered.

7. 14 years now without it. I wish I never picked up that first drink. It caused a lot of problems for me and set me back in more ways than one. Good riddance!

8. It’s okay but the headache I get after isn’t worth it.

9. don’t like the way it tastes

   Don’t like what it does to my wallet

   I don’t like how it makes me feel afterwards

   I don’t like how I behave while I am drinking it

   Don’t like the hangover in the morning

   so why am i drinking this shit again?

10. I don’t like the taste and I don’t like having my faculties lowered.

11. I like beer but I don’t drink. I have family members who struggle with addiction so that and smoking have never been appealing to me. I may have 2 beers a year.

12. No. It’s amazing. In moderation!

13. Nope, but I’ve never had an issue stopping either though whenever I needed to.

14. I enjoy alcohol but I also don’t drink much and have never gotten super drunk.

15. Champagne kicks as. That’s all I’m gonna say

16. It’s okay but there are much more interesting things to be under the influence of

17. As a now adult male I consume it occasionally. I don’t enjoy beer, hard liquor can be mixed with stuff to dilute the suck, and cider is kinda like juice it’s okay. Nothing I really enjoy tho.

    I have a predisposition to dislike it from watching adults in my child hood experience negative consequence of consuming it too heavily. I also realized it was never a conscious decision to start consuming it heavily. I have a really cautious relationship with it and I would encourage everyone do the same.

    By consequence I mean financial, mental, physical, etc

18. Not my first choice since it tastes like shit.

19. I don’t like the taste of alcohol. I have a relative that nearly died from drinking too much. My mom had a drinking problem that contributed to seizures. My dad died five years ago eight days from now from coronary artery disease as a result of numerous things, but alcohol was a big contributor.

    I can’t drink because I don’t want to follow in the footsteps of family members and I want to be there for my future son longer than my dad was for me.

20. It doesn’t make me feel good. Seems other people feel happy and social and I just feel strange. I know I’m not sober but not worth the bad taste. I even drank to black out a few times in college because it’s what you do and I never acted any different according to people. I realized I prefer weed.

21. Everything from beer, Wine and Spirits all smells like rubbing alcohol to me. Plus I just can’t get past the taste

22. Not dislike but life is too busy to drink more than one drink. Hate being useless and hungover the next day, it’s expensive and also excess calories

23. Not necessarily. But I take my health/fitness very seriously and it doesn’t fit into my meal plans. Occasionally I’ll have a drink socially, but that’s it.

24. I don’t dislike it for the taste or it’s effects. I do it very rarely socially, but I’m excited you asked this question. So many people around me are addicts they can’t have fun without alcohol. I hate how much control alcohol has over my friends. Recently one close friend got a DUI. Fuck alcohol.

25. Don’t like being hung over and drunks annoy me anymore.

26. I dislike alcohol because it’s not weed. I’ll drink from time to time, but it’s been years though. There’s been no reason to drink. But I smoke weed as a thing to do, and theres always things to do.

27. Nope I love it. It’s my best friend. I really need to find some real friends.

28. im under drinking age and i love alcohol. maybe its because im irish and german.

29. Getting older, I dislike that it’s my biggest opportunity to meet new people (women specifically) on a regular basis

30. Yes. Alcoholic father. Enough said.

31. I like being sharp minded. Alcohol dulls it for me. I don’t mind drinking but I have to be relaxing

32. I don’t dislike the taste of alcohol. I just abhor what happens when you’ve consumed too much.

33. Tastes bad and just makes me sleepy.

34. It just doesn’t do much for me.

    It’s like asking about a soda you don’t like, like Canada dry. I can tolerate it, and sometimes I drink it socially, but I don’t “need it” in my life.

35. Never tried it- but that lead to me taking care of drunk people.

    The crowd I was hanging around back then was so terrible and excessive with partying- the folks at the ER knew me by name.

    It brings out the worst in people and amplifies whatever you are going through right now.

36. I hate that it’s ruined my life. Cost me my best years. The relationship with my family. And the love of my life.

    But even when I was going through a handle every two days, and dreading putting that first sip up to my lips, sometimes puking as I did it, I knew it was better than spending one more hour desperately wishing I could kill myself.