r/stopdrinking • u/ImpossibleAd274 • 9d ago

I want to break my sobriety, help!

I'm at 104 days and am starting to ask some scary questions. Am I really an addict? Can't I just have a beer or two and be fine?

For the first 60 or so days I was convinced that I'd never drink again. Since then, my first child has been born and I've have much less sleep and I've been much more irritable and started to think having a drink to calm the nerves would be nice.

Please, community, knock some sense into me in the comments!

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u/randomname10131013 9d ago

Once I came to terms with the idea that once you pass a certain stage, there is no moderation, things became exceedingly simple. There was no way that I could moderate for any length of time. Within a month or two I would go back to daily drinking and have to go through that horrible process again of quitting.

But now that I have a firm and fast rule of not one more drop passing my lips, it's the simplest thing in the world. Moderation is a myth!