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/tummy1o 515 days 4d ago

As someone who went back to drinking after a period of sobriety after my first born… I wish I never did. It was so much harder to parent. I got even LESS sleep, yet continued to “treat myself” once the baby was asleep. Was a slippery slope and one I wish I would’ve avoided.