Why don't you guys strike a compromise? Say you usually go out drinking twice a week (or 4x) a week, cut it in half. Go out, have a good time, YOU drink water or near-beer (hey, it's the price you pay). On the other half of the nights you would have regularly gone out drinking, go see a movie or go out to eat, find a live band, go for a long night-walk, have a picnic, stay home and have a sex-fest (including banannas, cucumbers and blueberry syrup), whatever... be creative. If you actually care for your girlfriend, and she for you, then there is some middle ground. First step is talking to her about it. If you don't want to tell her about the roids, explain your lack of drinking by saying a good friend back home got in an accident while he was drunk and that you're a little shaken up by it. Maybe use the accutane excuse somebody on the thread mentioned. Or that alcohol has been giving you massive, painful hershey squirts... lol, you can come up with something.