Alcohol Use and The Impact on Relationships
Alcohol use is having a negative impact on relationships and health.
Drinking alcohol will impact how you act, how you feel and how others perceive you. It’s important to understand the effects of drinking on your relationship with others and your health.
Drinking alcohol affects your behavior.
It’s important to understand that alcohol affects your behavior. Alcohol is a depressant, which means it slows down your brain and body.
This can make you more impulsive and less inhibited, so you may do things without thinking about them first. For example, you might say something to someone that you wouldn’t say if sober — or worse yet, take an action that could hurt the other person (like touching them inappropriately).
It’s also common for people who have been drinking to overreact or misinterpret situations due in part to their slowed perception of time and space. The bottom line:
Drinking alcohol makes it more likely that something inappropriate will happen between you and your partner because it alters your sense of reality.”
