I don't want to keep bringing up the past, however I find it very important to remind myself DAILY that I am an alcoholic, and I CANNOT drink. A couple of years ago while I was going to conseling (court ordered) my conselor asked this simple question.
"How many hours in a week did you drink". To my surprise, when I added everything up, it came out to a MINIMUM of 54 hours a week. It's sad, but I still did not want to admit that I had a problem. My god, that's more than I spent working