Hi Hoping! Welcome. Alcohol is everywhere in the States too. You basically can't leave your home, well actually even in your home if you view any kind of media! Hell I can't even go on Facebook without an ad on the left of all the statuses for all the latest and greatest wines out there. Ugh! Boy is it ever hard.
I think it takes a lot of face to face support and sober friends. I don't hang out with any of the people I used to accept for my family but they all know the deal with me. I am making new sober friends so I feel good about that, most of them are from AA. It took me a year or more to work up the courage to post here and then a few months to walk into a room for an AA meeting.
No one wants to be an alcoholic, I wish people were more open about it and it didn't have such a shameful feeling about it. I hope you share here and keep coming back. Sounds like you need a lot of support.
