This is my 3rd go at long term sobriety and the reasons for getting sober changed as my alcoholism progressed. The first time I quit I was 29 and I stopped to get the bad stuff to stop happening (relationships, job). The second time I quit I did some things I thought I would never do and it scared me (health, legal issues). The last time I quit I had reached a point where I found that I could no longer live with alcohol or without it and was contemplating suicide. My reasons for getting sober got more dire as my alcoholism got progressively worse.