The Bert Show.

I have a couple of friends in this unique situation, and I'm just wondering how they deal with it.

It's actually three sets of couples where one of them in the relationship drinks alcohol and the other one doesn't, like really at all.

And in a couple of the two out of the three couples, though one person that doesn't

really drink, only drinks like occasionally or would have like one glass of wine or like

one beer and then that's it. They just don't like it. Doesn't make them feel good. So they just

don't drink. And then their partner drinks a lot. And so, and this is in two of the

couples. And then in the third couple, I don't know them as well, but it seems that one doesn't

drink at all. And I'm not sure for what reasons, but then the other one does drink. So I just

am curious because it seems to me to be an issue that continually comes up, especially in the two

couples that I know better than the others. It seems to be a be an issue that continually comes up, especially in the two couples that I know better than the others.

It seems to be a constant recurring issue because the one who doesn't drink tends to end up taking care of or being the designated driver or whatever for the one who does drink.

Do they seem to mind or do they go with it?

Yeah, no, I think they seem to mind.

It seems to be an issue in the relationship because the one who doesn't drink always seems to feel like this responsibility and this irritation by the one who does drink. Well, they feel like a parent because you have to watch out. You have to be the designated driver. I don't know how that could work. And they always want to go home earlier than the one who wants to drink. You know, they're ready. You know, if they go to a party or gathering or whatever, like one hour and done. They're good to go after like one hour. They want to visit, chit-chat, whatever. And then they're ready to go home and turn on the movie and veg out or go to bed or whatever. They don't have the alcohol to make everybody else interested. Right. Well, nothing's worse than being at a party full of drunk people and you're the sober one.

Because everything is 10 times more annoying. Yeah. So anyway, I just don't know how they do it. I don't know how they handle it. And I wonder if it's something that would eventually split them up. Because the three couples I'm talking about are just dating. They're not married couples.

So at that point, you know, it could be, it could become a deal breaker at one point.

See, now it's been just the opposite experience for me when I've known couples that have been in

this situation because generally the person that doesn't drink is a controlled person.

It's the reason why they don't drink is because they like being in

control and the alcohol sort of takes over and they don't feel in control anymore. So there's,

they've never said it publicly to me before, but I wonder if you're, if we're playing psychologists,

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