Originally Posted by
Sorensen 
I want to stop binge drinking on the weekend, but it is so ingrained into me with friends that it makes it very difficult. I am 27, so people are starting to slow it down and I have as well but it still lingers. Maybe there are lots of people like me that binge drink in their twenties and then once they start careers and families it becomes a thing of the past I dunno. And to be honest i'm scared to quit drinking because of the socializing that it brings.
I have been a binge drinker since 19. By 30 all my friends had either slowed down or gone off the "deep end" and were daily drinking heavily pretending they were still 21. I on the other hand was still "just binging" on the weekends.
When I quit I was still "just binging" at 36. I was just as much an alcoholic as anyone else but, I used that whole "I only drink when I want to and dont have to function the next day..." excuse for a long time.
Oh yeah and no AA for me either....GL, Jess