Originally Posted by
Need2QuitNow 
Hi, I am a well settled professional with a decent earning, a well settled life, a house, a lovely and amazingly loving wife and a daughter.
I don't like to call myself and alcoholic but ....
For a long time, I thought that since I only drank Chardonnay, I was too civilized to be an alcoholic.
It didn't matter that I was hiding my drinking, drinking at least 2 bottles a day, and doing things like buying a large McDonald's lemonaid, pouring it out, and pouring wine in so I could drink it through a straw while I watched my children play at the park.