Thanks for all the questions that might indicate that one has a problem. For the alcoholic or addict, it appears that everything good and fun in life revolves around the buzz.
It is only after we are clean and sober that we can see how wrong that thinking is. It is a real catch-22.
As I said to my husband one day, you drink to celebrate, you drink when you’re sad, you drink when you have been disappointed, you have never faced an emotion without alcohol in your life.