Originally Posted by rednails

haha, glad I'm not the only one. But no more! Seriously, I think maybe it starts because I'm bored?
Drinking was always such a normal part of daily life for me, while growing up it always seemed normal that the adults drank every day, then of course I went and immersed myself in an entire world of alcohol with being a bartender. I honestly think the only reason why my complete alcohol abuse didn't start there (well, it started but didn't quite spiral) was because I was working nights and therefore didn't have time to drink.
Now that I've worked a regular 9-5 for the past few years (I was still bar tending on the weekends up until a few months ago), I have these evenings to fill with something to do and that's when I started drinking. House chores are just much more fun if I get to drink while I'm doing them. Did you substitute another drink (like coffee, tea, etc.) at times when you normally would have been having alcohol of some sort?
The craziest thing is that I didn't even question the "almost daily drinking" thing up until about a year ago, when my husband's friends would come over and not want a drink. I started to realize it wasn't normal to drink every day. I'm in my late 20's and it took this long for me to realize that my behavior wasn't normal. On top of that, I don't ever want to be drunk again. It's always the buzz that I start out looking for, but more times than not I wind up being drunk. I think I'm an alcoholic AND a binge drinker.