Soldato
Being in a similar situation (in that I regulary have 4 or 5 pints per night) I can understand your reasoning for doing so, and partially this thread is making me go the same way. Luckily my mrs doesn't really drink and I dont tend to drink when shes around as we live apart so I get a few night off a week as standard.
Every now and again I fall back into bad habits of drinking every night, I don't get wasted but it does help me relax sometimes and while I don't *need* it, I do quite enjoy having beers each evening.
What I try and do is when it becomes an issue, the first step is just to have a beer or 5 every other night. Make sure on the nights that you do have one that you dont compensate by having 10 beers 'because you were good the night before'. I tend to do this and have to stop myself.
Yeah, its not great but its better than nothing, unlike you I have neither the willpower or the commitment to go teetotal so I just make sure I never let myself get out of hand. I wish you the best of luck and hope that you get all the support you might need, you've already made all the right decisions.
Every now and again I fall back into bad habits of drinking every night, I don't get wasted but it does help me relax sometimes and while I don't *need* it, I do quite enjoy having beers each evening.
What I try and do is when it becomes an issue, the first step is just to have a beer or 5 every other night. Make sure on the nights that you do have one that you dont compensate by having 10 beers 'because you were good the night before'. I tend to do this and have to stop myself.
Yeah, its not great but its better than nothing, unlike you I have neither the willpower or the commitment to go teetotal so I just make sure I never let myself get out of hand. I wish you the best of luck and hope that you get all the support you might need, you've already made all the right decisions.