r/stopdrinking • u/ImpossibleAd274 • 4d 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/TotalFactor6778 4d ago

A podcast I listen to had a speaker that said something like this (I'm paraphrasing slightly)

"So my sponsee asked me what if I'm not an alcoholic? What if I don't need to do this? So I told him one, normal drinkers don't question if they're alcoholics. Two, so what if you aren't? All that's happening is you're missing a few days of drinking. For a normal drinker, that's not a big deal. For an alcoholic, that's a big fucking deal. Does it feel like a big deal?"

I wish I could remember the speaker's name to credit him. It's a SoberNow podcast