Originally Posted by
Cissy 
Frank, so great to see you're really engaging with us now. Makes me so happy to see you "coming out." And I agree that drinking 1 day out of 5 (reverse of what you had been doing) has got to be seen as an improvement. Maybe make it 1 day out of 10 next and then 1 day out of 15 and keep making those stretches wider and wider.
I know many will say that's a sucky plan but I think it rocks. Stepping stones. If you can't sustain straight sobriety, at least make progress.
Cissy, I think you might gets some votes for "sucky" here.
Tapering off . . . I've tried it, I've researched it (I've researched
everything) and I don't see it as a solution. Binge drinking, for me, is still binge drinking regardless if it's for one day or four. And since May when I "cut back" to one day out of five I still get knocked for a loop after that one day. I'm not fully functional for another four or five days. The cumulative effect of abusing my body, I guess.
But thank you!