(12-31-2022, 07:11 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(12-31-2022, 06:24 PM)Jags Wrote: Mine are similar. My issue is my drinking.  Apparently it runs in the family on both sides.  It skipped my parents.  I’d love to walk my daughter down the aisle one day.  Preferably to a boy.  Well, a man, when the time comes. But you get it.  Besides the point.  Best of luck to you, sir and have a great new year.

Try a shorter goal approach. Instead of Dry January, do Dry 1st Week of January. If you can achieve that, then extend it out. Give it a shot. 

As I've posted here numerous times, my father was an alcoholic and it absolutely wrecked his health starting in his forties. Irreversible health problems that would have been manageable had he stopped drinking then, but it ended up being his end. 

Take that step. It's a small one but that's how every journey starts. Except when you're pushed out of a moving vehicle...in the middle of the night...far from home. But that's another story!

Good luck and Happy New Year to you.

I appreciate that.  I really do.  Same to ya.  My GP diagnosed me as a functional alcoholic.  That’s even telling her I drank less than I do. She was kinda cool though.  I don’t want to admit that.  But I just did. I’ve never met my grandparents.  Except for one.  I pray each day to take the taste of dip and beer out of my mouth.  Even when I don’t feel it, I still buy it and drink it. Seems to be a will power thing.  Had a nice long sober stage for 2 years after being arrested for bogus charges.  Had an anxiety issue and beer helped me cope.  Here I am.  Back at it.  It’s sad.  I’m sad. I know what I’m doing, ask to change it, yet still can’t stop.

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