Why do drinkers dislike non-drinkers?

Answer 1

because you're not the same as them
they feel inferior around you
they also have a warped view of social behaviour that you don't fit into
so they can't understand how you tick

Answer 2

The thing i dislike about non drinkers is the way some of them have to pick on drinkers the next day. I mean so what, alot of people get drunk. Do we really have to be told how stupid we were last night. If anything that bad happened i think we would remember. Mind your own business and I'll be happy.

Answer 3

Drinkers dislike non-drinkers because they don't appreciate
each other's company and have nothing in common. While the
drinkers are drinking and enjoying themselves, the non-drinkers
are cursing all the time.

Answer 4

Drinkers that dislike non-drinkers, usually have a problem with their drinking. Normal, social drinkers don't have problems with non-drinkers. People that have a drinking problem don't want to be around people who aren't like them. It's that simple. This is coming from an alcoholic in recovery. When I drank, I thought people who didn't drink, lacked social skills and the ability to have fun, and also thought they would judge me because of my drinking. Misery indeed loves company.

Answer 5

I don't dislike non-drinkers since I have friends who do not drink, yet still go out with our group and have a great time in the clubs. What I dislike is when a non-drinker gets on their high horse judging me because I choose to drink. I'm not hurting anything other than my own liver tyvm. :)

Answer 6

For the same reason smoker don't like non-smokers. All non-drinkers seem to do around drinkers, especially when they're drinking is talk about how they're high on life and don't need alcohol to have a good time.

Answer 7

I don't think they do, but I have found (and I am making a bit of a generalization here) that non drinkers, are usually ardent non-drinkers and have a tendency to be preachy about their point of view. And no amount of alcohol will be able to dull the incesent whine of a preachy non-drinker. But if you are a non-drinker and don't decide to push your views on me, I will welcome you any day of the week.

Answer 8

Because they think that the non drinkers hate them.

Answer 9

I'm a drinker and I don't dislike non-drinkers. You're generalizing.

Answer 10

I think because some drinkers think that the non-drinker feel they are judgemental of them.

Answer 11

Do you mean drinkers, or do you mean alcoholics and those well on the way to being alcoholics? I ask this because really really most occassional drinkers or people who have a beer now and then or a few at a party really do not give a hoot if you do or not. Here and there, there a few who would like to see you relax and do what they do or act as stupid as they might, so they might try to push you to drink with them. There and quite alot of here and now are people who want to take advantage of you because they know they can hold more liquor than you can, but most people who drink occassionally do not care if another person does or doesn't. Because they don't care, they also do not dislike the non-drinker. Now if you are talking about alcoholics and people who are well on their way there, some won't give a nondrinker the time of day and they won't like you if you don't drink. There are many reasons for this. One is if they are going look like an *** in a little while, they want you to also so that you don't criticize them. For others it is because people who care about them have nagged them to stop and sometimes in their families they have been argued and fought with in an attempt to get them to stop. They have learned to hate that. They associate it with all nondrinkers and hate them. Other alcoholics don't care, they just know if you are not falling down drunk with them, you will be an infringement on their fun or be no fun at all to them so they don't want to be around you. That does not always mean they do not like you. Some won't like you that is true, because they consider you to be no fun or ready to go home before their fun starts and figure you will want them to also. Some won't like you because of a form of jealousy. You are sober and unaddicted and you are what they want to be and can't be because they have gone too far. Others may well like you but not to be around you because you don't fit in their world of alcoholism. There is also a true social drinker who just wants to be out sometimes and drink a little with others who are doing the same and you put ripples in that scene if you are not a drinker too. That is alot like saying serious bicycle racers like to congregate together or serious poker players and they simply don't tend to rally together with people who are not part of that scene too often because they do not have common interests. It does not mean they do not like the people who have different interests, it just means you won't often find them around those other people. Whichever group you are talking about, stick to your guns because not everyone can drink safely and some people are more prone to addiction than others. When a person becomes addicted some have gone too far and will lose their lives, some still have the sense left to get help but it will be a long hard struggle. Life is difficult enough, there is no reason to go through more pain and struggle than we have to. If someone comes to you for help, work to find them help and if they don't need any let them pursue their lifestyle and you yours. Marriages fail everyday peoples' backgrounds and interests have little in common. Don't think of it as dislike for you personally, think of it as dislike of your principles and think of such people as ones you would not make happy and who would not make your life happy. then go on with living and don't waste your time thinking about it or asking why again. best wishes.