Originally Posted by
LexieCat 
I hid the booze all the time--and I had "decoy" bottles I would leave out in the open so it wouldn't be known EXACTLY how much I was drinking.
For me, it was simply a means to an end--to allow me to drink what I wanted to drink without being hassled. Yes, on some level I knew it meant something was very wrong. I knew I was drinking too much. But I did it anyway.
My RAH did this, too. Had the "guest" bottles out that collected dust, while the bottles he drank from stayed close by him. It got to a point where even the guest bottles went fast. He doesn't know why he did it, either. Especially considering while he lived alone, he rarely had guests. I believe it was a form of denial to how much he was really drinking...if there was a full bottle in the house somewhere, then he really wasn't out of control, right?
Addictions don't make sense to those of us not addicted.