Hello Aussiem, we use the alcohol not necessarily because that's what we want to do, but to use it as a way of blocking out our thoughts and if we do start to tell people how we are feeling or why we're drinking, they naturally believe we are alcoholics and that's where the problem begins because their focus is on us stopping the alcohol, rather than focusing on why we need to drink it.
That's one enormous hurdle we have to overcome and on most occasions, it's what they think, rather than how we are feeling, so a disagreement begins all about the wrong circumstances.
I understand what it does to you, and I felt exactly the same as you, and certainly appreciate that you are able to go without it, but when certain situations are going to happen, then perhaps that's a reason why you drink, and again I was like that, so I comprehend.
Best wishes.
Geoff.
