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Oleaceae at what point do you decide moderation is useless and decide upon sobriety?
It's hard to say, and I remember wanting to hear from others the same answers you are looking for, during my days before I finally turned the corner. I think the truth is that I always knew I had to quit, or at least I had to quit in order to live a life worth living.
I look back and I can't believe I lived a life for so long that was in service to alcohol - everything was colored by my need to drink - my fatherhood, my career, my health, my relationships with women, my friends, my family, my money - everything was sacrificed at the alter of my addiction. So when did I decide that moderation/still drinking was useless? I wish I knew man. I think I really knew all along but I lived in a state of permanent adolescence for so long. It was easier, as brutal as life was, just to go on pretending things would change.
But of babble there bro. I can only say that getting sober was the best decision of my life.