Originally Posted by
doggonecarl 
If you want to get and stay sober, you are going to have to change up your life, particularly in the beginning. Hard to stay sober in a drinking environment, even harder getting sober in the first place.
If you can't make recovery your priority, can't say "No" to the wife and friends when it comes to putting your sobriety ahead of social obligation, you will really struggle and in all likelihood, continue drinking.
I KNOW, that is even more scary. Bad situation. My health is obviously the most important. I know this obviously. Just need to do it somehow. I almost feel if I quit drinking, I lose everything. Vicious fight in my head. If I keep drinking, I lose everything, it's happened before. I'm a successful guy job wise with the best job and have to do the unthinkable here, in this tropical paradise, otherwise odds are this could all end bad for me.
Thanks