Sobriety?
I truly felt I was hopeless. I didn't think I'd ever stop. I joined this site four years before I stopped drinking. I spent four years trying to prove that I wasn't like everybody else here. I thought I'd find a way, some way, any way, to become a moderate drinker. I used to drink every night. Getting a day one was a monumental task. I have not had any alcohol in 2 1/2 years.
Here's what I can tell you about sobriety:
You have to want sobriety more than you want to drink. (You'll know when you get to this point.)
Sobriety is possible when you accept you'll never be a moderate drinker.
Accept defeat. Accept that you're just not wired to drink like most people you know.
Take it one day at a time.
You'll never have a hangover again.
It's hard at first but it gets much easier. I'm totally used to not drinking now. It's almost easy now.
There is no situation that drinking can't make worse.
You'll never wake up and wish you would've drank the night before.
You'll save a lot of money. My car payment now is what I used to spend on alcohol. $340 a month.