im not an alcholic by the way but i really do need to start slowing down on the weekend binge drinking,
How do you know you're not an alcoholic? I also didn't think I was an alcoholic for many years - despite being told I was - because I didn't fit my own concept of what an alkie was. I thought alkies drank in the mornings and were lying in the gutter by lunchtime; screaming abuse at buses and pigeons, and because I wasn't like that (yet), I didn't think I was an alkie. I thought I had all these external problems causing me to drink.
But being an alkie is a bit like being pregnant as in you are either pregnant or you're not pregnant, the only difference is that depending on the stage of our alcoholism, it shows more in some than in others. It is something that progressively gets worse, never better.
This is an alcoholic:
If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
But rarely does a problem drinker want to stop drinking until it's beating the life out of him/her, and they try to get other plans in place such as this:
i really do need to start slowing down on the weekend binge drinking,
I don't expect this post to give you any blinding flash of insight - and as you say, you may not even be an alcoholic - but I hope to plant a seed in your mind, just in case. If you find alcohol is giving you problems, there will be an AA meeting close to you that'd be happy to have you drink their coffee and listen in.
I'll get off your back now!
