Wine every day. Started out as drinking with dinner with husband. Then I’d start drinking while preparing dinner, then having another glass after dinner. As my life started to unravel because of family stress, I drank not just everyday, but all the time. I added a shot of liquor to my coffee in the morning. I had a glass of wine the minute I came home from work. If I had to run errands, I put wine in a water bottle and drove around with it. I did so,e terrible awful things. I drove to work drunk. Even went to a couple meetings drunk. I hid it all easily and continued to function. I started having blackouts by the end of the day. This is when my husband realized how bad it was. I had been hiding (except for the dimmer wine). toward the end I was starting to see consequences and knew I would eventually kill my self or someone else. It was horrible.
It is interesting to see these posts and others patterns of drinking.