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He got really drunk one night and sent me a voice note and it was the sweetest thing ever. He told me that he thought I was one of the kindest people hes met, that I make his and everyone else's day better, and that he hopes i get the best of things because I deserve it. He ended the vn by calling me perfect.
I had no idea he thought so highly of me..the fact that he did almost felt like a secret. it made me day and i have the voice note saved and i listen to it fairly regularly. Really, really helps with my self esteem issues sometimes.
I'm not gonna lie, this probably made me realise that I might have a small crush on him but I'm too nervous to do anything about it lmao..
Experts say that alcohol can bend some people’s perception of truth, and they may became much more extroverted.
The shy friend who barely speaks at parties may suddenly become the loudest storyteller in the room after a few drinks — not because alcohol is making them honest, but because it’s removing their fear of speaking.
"We generally find that drinking alcohol tends to intensify our emotions. We may find ourselves smiling more and speaking more loudly in pleasant interactions, but perhaps, we might also be more likely to cry in our beer in less-pleasant situations," says Michael Sayette, a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.
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One drunk evening a couple of weeks back, I said something along the lines of “you can’t say that to him, he’s married!”, referring to my friend, who’s longterm girlfriend had just moved into his house.
What I didn’t expect was him to reply “…who told you?!”
Turns out, they got married in secret 2 weeks prior. He was too drunk to realise I was continuing my bit, and I was just sober enough to play it off. Most of the group is still none the wiser, and he’s planning a big announcement soon.
According to several scientific studies, alcohol slows down the activity in our prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for judgment and self-control.
It also suppresses the amygdala responsible for fear and anxiety signals — the ones that usually warn you against saying something awkward or hurtful.
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I was living in a motor home with my husband and our toddler, next to a motor home with my husband's best friend and his wife and their toddler. I hated every single person there except for my own child. I tried so hard to fit in and be friends, not in a "try hard" kind of way but I just did my best to be nice and kind and friendly with these people that I was stuck with. My husband wasn't the same man I married. To this day I don't know what happened, like if there was a catalyst that changed him or if this was just the "real him" that I was seeing.
Anyway, I drank a bottle of rum on new years. I bought it to share but nobody touched it. This was one of the things they would do to ostracize me, they refused to touch anything I brought to share. They were all rum drinkers, it's not like I bought the wrong stuff. Anyway, I drank the whole bottle of rum and by the next morning, everyone on the property hated me. I do not remember specific things I said, just that the filter came off and I was horrifically truthful.
No regrets. That was 13 years ago and the only one still in my life from those people is my child.
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Since alcohol also affects memory, drunk people often exaggerate or misremember things. They sometimes also confidently say things that might not be accurate at all.
Alcohol forces them to fill in gaps with assumptions or emotions, mistaking them for facts when their thinking becomes fuzzy. What comes out sounds honest because it’s unfiltered — not because it’s correct.
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A 2026 survey of 40,000 UK drinkers found that one in eight people (over 13%) get what’s being called ‘hangxiety’ — feelings of anxiousness while hungover.
People aged 18 to 24 were the most likely to regret a night of drinking, while those over 65 were the least likely.
“People may feel guilt or remorse because they drink more than they intend to, because alcohol harms their health, or because they worry about the impact on others, work, or family life,” says study author Dr Sharon Cox, a psychologist at University College London.
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Got drunk one night and confessed that actually his father in law paid for everything, the car, the house, renovation, wedding.
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Several surveys showed recently that more and more people are avoiding alcohol altogether.
The NHS Health Survey for England in January found 24% of adults had not drunk alcohol in a year — an increase from 19% in 2022.
Just 33% had done so before the age of 16, down from 71% about 25 years ago.
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I had never met him before so it was kind of a weird interaction.
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That one hurt.
A big reason more people are choosing to go on the wagon is that many of them now understand that alcohol isn’t just a fun‑time juice, it comes with real health risks.
One of the worst things about getting drunk is waking up the next morning with no memory of previous night’s events.
Heavy drinking can disrupt the brain’s ability to form new memories, even while someone appears completely functional.
They might hold conversations, make jokes, even do simple math — and then remember none of it later.
Which is how you end up with that unsettling feeling when you sober up and everyone else remembers your “brutal honesty,” except you.
Alcohol affects the hippocampus, or the memory center of the brain — which is why we black out, and why science and law says that drunk people cannot give informed consent.
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She demanded a divorce after our first child.
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