Originally Posted by
darkstarpa 
I tell my wife and family that I am slowing drinking lower volumes. It's hard for me. I know that some people don't wan't to hear my truth. Hopefully I can join the team with long term sobriety, I need to get through short goals/
I don't mind hearing your truth if you don't mind hearing mine
Trying to cut down or taper back was torture for me.
Trying to control something I'd repeatedly showed I couldn't control was like herding cats or rounding up smoke.
The best way I discovered was to rip the band aid right off..short term pain but then the healing begins.
You can't get well while you're still taking the same poison thats making you sick.
Change is imperative. There's really no way around that I'm afraid.
I'm not trying to frustrate, irritate, or scare you.
I was in your shoes once.
I had no idea how I might live without drinking.
I also didn't really want to change my life and have my problem with alcohol 'out there' in public knowledge (It was anyway - but that's another thread topic)
I knew I could go a day without drinking, so I committed to that - and then backed up that commitment the next day, and the next...soon I had a string of days behind me and forever no longer seemed so scary
I've never regretted my decision. I really believe you won't either
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