The two-two-two rule... Crappy advice.
 

Learning when it sounds too good to be true, it definitely is.

In my search for a good, local, community to find support, (to be totally clear - I'm not talking aboit thia forum), there's been the suggestion, that eventually, when you're really ready to contol yourself; you can adopt the two two two rule.

No more than two drinks, more than two days in a row, now more often than every two weeks.

...I don't think that's gonna work for me, as tempting as that sounds. Probably not the right group for me, or many other addicts. 🤔

Never worked for me, neither did alternating beers with water, drinking NA beer or shandies, or waiting until a certain hour to start

I was/am addicted - there's no bargaining with addiction.

My relationship with alcohol is fundamentally toxic.
The first drink starts all the trouble, not the last.

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I wouldn't even get a buzz off 2 drinks.

Yeah, the tease, tease, tease rule is more like it. Ha!

Reminds me of a line that Apollo Creed said to Rocky. "There is no tomorrow" such as there is no safe drink after becoming a drunk. What's done is done, best off to just be done.*

WOW. If only someone had just told me to stop after the second shot, I wouldn't have wasted a dozen more . . . smh

Actually, I'm glad. There's too many awesome people that I never would have met if I didn't "have to" go to those damned AA meetings and hang out on a recovery forum . . .

I'll never be ready to control myself when it comes to alcohol. If I could, I wouldn't be on a recovery forum.

And 2 drinks? What a tease.

What would eb the point of two drinks? Unless they were big buggers.

I drank to get drunk....period. End of story.

I literally snorted. And then laughed...bitterly.

Worst.advice.ever

Who coined that gem?

Sort of what Aries said....never heard of this perfect example of alcoholic mind justifying drinking.

A non starter for me as one who doesn't believe in moderation-'or tapering- for any alcoholic.

to prime me for the next 10.
but then, that's the alcoholic logic in me.
I think I was a wee bit insane.

im glad ya see how insane this would be for ya

Someone who obviously has no business talking to anyone whose had alcohol problems, and is trying to stay sober. 😒

Hahahaha. Sorry, I have to laugh. Who the hell wants just two drinks? I could also stick my hand in a rusty meat grinder and have just about as much fun. LOL. Nope, I wanted 15+ or NONE at all.

Let me add another two...that would last for two minutes.

That won't work for me. Once I start I cannot stop.

yeah the fact that we even figured we should try and set up some ground rules for our drinking should have been a red flag from the get go. I had lots of them most didnt work. I did stick to my no drinking till after 5pm till like the finaly year then i started drinking earlier and earlier but just small amts to take the edge off. But i was getting concerned about the increasing cost of my habit as well. The sooner i started the more i drank and the more it would cost as is i was torching every spare dime it seemed like on booze or simply saying no to stuff we needed jsut so i could get a drink instead.

I used to need two, or three, just to get out of bed... :frown:

Exactly. I was up to 18 a day on average when I quit. 1/3/17