Snakes, are you doing a twelve-step program? I keep hearing about how people are "dry" as opposed to "sober" - if we are truly "sober" and in touch with spirituality, we can be happy in sobriety. If we are just not drinking ("dry") and not doing work on ourselves, we will likely be miserable. I'm 30, and I have the moderate-drinking dream too at times... but when I really delve into it and get honest with myself... what I really want is to be able to get DRUNK occasionally. That's not moderate drinking... sure 7 drinks a week is moderate, but not if they are all in one day.
Only you can decide if you are an alcoholic... but at 23, you've likely not had many of the health consequences, and maybe legal consequences, that a 50 year old alcoholic has. Why put ourselves through those things? Any older alcoholic would say it's not worth it to keep testing yourself. Not drinking is not the end of a social life... it's just a change. Just my two cents.
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