My alcoholism is a nasty condition - when I was actively drinking, I had about a thousand reasons to keep drinking: a party on the weekend, exams coming up, a vacation coming up, football season, sunshine, an overcast sky, being happy, being sad...
There's this story about a someone whose hair is on fire. If my hair's on fire, I don't sit around saying, 'I'm going to wait two weeks until I put this out.' The thing is, I never saw my drinking like that, until I did. And then it was just a matter of getting help.
I dunno if your situation is/was like that - but that was the reality for me.