Hello and welcome.
I haven't conquered drink, I'm given a daily reprieve from it. It's been that way for five years two months now.
You're a braver man than me having beer around and not thinking about it. When I was drinking, it was all I thought about.
It started out easy enough for me, get drunk once in awhile and not worry about it.
Then, it became my life. I loved to drink, so I did. This started when I was fourteen.
I've been every kind of drinker there is except a dead one and that's only by the grace of God.
I'm an alcoholic. I can never drink in any way safely again.
I was a binger for a long time. That lead to a life that revolved around alcohol. If I didn't have a beer in my hand, I was thinking about one.
You're very wise to realize you may have a problem now. I won't go into the gory details of the path alcohol led me down, but if you can stop now you'll save yourself a world of misery.
See, alcoholism, and I'm not saying you're an alcoholic, is very predictable.
The only hope for us who can't control our drinking is complete abstinence.
You'll find lots of support here, so I hope you stick around.
Best to you my friend.