Hey Dave, everyone has a different barometer, but I will say that you sound A LOT like where I was. I would say you are lucky in that it hasn’t taken hold of you being DEPENDENT on it, but the question I would ask is could you “take it or leave it” or relegate yourself to only have one to two drinks and that’s all.

For me, I COULDN’T only do 1 or 2 drinks which put me well on my way to eventually being in trouble. I’m one of those people who doesn’t have an OFF switch and I was going down a road that may have continued to be fine, but it was not looking good.

Alcoholism can be very sneaky as you’ll wake up one day, and it’ll seem like all of a sudden your relationship will just be different.

Hopefully, this is NOT you, but as long as you’re aware this could happen, then at least you are making the decision to drink knowing this danger is there. So many people don’t even realize this until it is too late.

I would say that I was lucky in that I got the knowledge before that could happen to me, and, hopefully, AINYF helps others be lucky as well.