Dang. I feel bad. Love my scotch. Maybe need to cut back.
I like a drink, but I have a built-in sobriety mechanism at various times of my life.
Mostly, I’ve always moderated drinking because I am a big guy and have to hit the stats for an ejection seat, which does not leave me really any room for fat.
Now, in addition to the above, if I have more than 3 drinks (any kind of booze) in a 24 hour period, I feel like complete crap the next day and can’t get anything done.
If I drink more than two days in a row (even one beer each day), I feel like crap and what comes out of my bowels destroys toilets.
I finally settled on drinking two glasses of wine for Shabbos meal and then only when my wife and I go to dinner with some other couple (which is basically never).
Maybe I just got middle aged.
I’d be happy to help you out and take all that awful Scotch away for you.
I know I drink too much (whiskey), more or less on a daily basis. And oftentimes more.
However, over a period of decades, I’ve had zero encounters with the law connected with my imbibing, and minimal if any relationship issues because of it.
Still, because of my concern that it was too much a part of my life, I made the decision a couple of years ago to stop cold turkey. And I remained sober for a full year, not touching a drop.
What I learned was that my drinking was a habit, not an addiction; and, frankly, that I didn’t feel or look much different.
I am in no way dismissing the problem alcohol brings to many lives.
There are currently people very close to me struggling with alcohol addiction, and others very close to me that lost their lives to it.
But, IMHO, there is a difference between a true problem drinker and one who simply likes their booze.
There's always the option of drinking one's self sober.
I knew guys that actually boasted of mastering such a method lol.
A little like committing suicide by shooting yourself, only starting with the big toe and gradually working up.