Making a good choice! Good Luck

Am I reading this right:

A month a go you stopped drinking for 2 1/2 weeks...then for the last week and a half you still 'drink occasionally' ?

Way to go.
Stay strong, buddy.

can't you just drink less? sobriety sucks.

just don't turn into one of those people who look like they have devoted their lives to not drinking. :p

I have a bad alcohol problem. Alcohol has been the root of everything bad in my life.
Losing my 50K plus job last year, my divorce from my first wife, hell even my ending my USAF career.

I've tried to stop numerous times, and always find a way to rationalize it to myself that this time, it will be different. And it never is.

I can't drink, plain and simple. Not "just one" at a party or "only a few" with the boys during a football game.
I can't. For me. it's none or way too many. I've radically restructured my life in an effort to quit, and it's a fight every day.

I have my higher power, and my wife along with me, and my not so strong will, trying to make it.
This is the hardest thing I've ever done. I see a beer commercial and I want a 30 pack.
I wish anyone trying to quit the best of luck. It's tough, I know. Good luck and God bless.

Alcoholism- the real kind- is nothing to mess with. I watched a guy D.T. in jail once, he drank a cup of piss because someone told him was hooch. He was too shaky and sick to even fight the guy who gave it to him.

I guess I should mention I was in jail from an alcohol related incident to begin with, and eventually a couple months of sobriety helped me more than the jail time. Good luck man.

congrats man I'd never be able to quit drinking. Especially if I still lived in NZ, you guys drink like fish down there!

For Elvis (I had gout so i stopped drinking fro a week and a bit - this was about 4 years ago.):

Good luck Elvis. More power to you for taking control of your life.