My boyfriend and I took a trip back to the town where he went to college. He loved the area and a bunch of his friends were still there; got jobs after college and settled down. It was a nice place and we had a great time playing tourist (I actually was a tourist and he was reminiscing).
He texted a bunch of his college buddies that he was back in town and wanted to hang out for the night. To be clear–these people had graduated from college at least 10 years prior to this story and were now in their early 30s.
It was a nice mini getaway and our first hotel stay together. I was excited to see all the cool touristy stuff and meet his college friends. One of his friends started texting him stuff like “so glad you’re back in town, man–we are gonna make you throw up tonight! Get ready to get WASTED.”
I asked if his buddy was joking and he said “no, I totally want to throw up with them tonight!” I was so confused because I had never seen that side of him–and also drinking with the intention of throwing up is pretty strange.
I was judgy about it and said things like “you’re going to get THAT drunk? I don’t want to have to take care of you on our weekend trip.” and “you’ll be hungover and we have so many fun things planned for tomorrow!” He got mad at me and said that he never sees his friends anymore and I’m being such an unreasonable girlfriend.
I have no problem with hanging out with his friends, I have no problem with drinking and maybe even getting tipsy–we’re on vacation, whatever. But is it really necessary to get WASTED and WANT to throw up? We’re not college kids at a frat party.