Hi All
For me it was a bit different.
I was drinking a too much too often but by no means every day or even every week. But it hadn't really twigged that I had a problem but i was slowly drinking more and more. I decided to quit for 1 year to lose weight and found out that it was incredibly hard for me to do so for a sustained period.
This contained craving has told me that I am an alcoholic.
I feel that I have been lucky in catching it early, Because it's pretty dam hard to resist some days. I have no idea how hard the daily drinkers/ physically dependant must find it.
I wonder if you may be like me. You know on a psychological level that you are a alcoholic. However, as you are otherwise a successful person who's life has yet to be damaged visibility by the addiction your ego argues that you're being silly. You have drank with no issues before and perhaps you can do it again.
I have to remind myself daily often that this is not really true.