Translations:Cocktail Evenings/18/en

A second area where difficulty arises is pressure to drink. This is rarely explicit. It appears as a refilled glass, a raised eyebrow, or a joke. People who are sober, in recovery, on medication, or simply not drinking that night consistently report this as the least comfortable part of such events. Declining a drink should require no explanation, and hosts who make that visibly easy remove a great deal of quiet strain.