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>>14345960
Yeah, no worries man. Happy to help. I'm on the border of true alcoholism and not, so I try to be rational. It sounds like his insecurities and other things are hard to get over, alongside the business aspect, which is hard for me too. Drinking makes me fun, and connects to my workplace and friendships.

To stop drinking, you can either tell me that I get to bang Gigi Hadid every day if I stop forever, or find me a social life and job that exists without alcohol. My therapist hasn't been able to help me do this, and while my friends aren't alcoholics like me, I just simply wouldn't be invited around to most of the activities anymore if I couldn't function around alcohol. I'm not going to go sit in a bar with the gang for three hours during football when I'm being sober, or go out to the club and watch everyone take shots and have a good time when I desperately want to but can't for only reasons based on myself. It's really tough.

>>14346095
>What if alcohol is completely the issue, not some 'anger management problem'?
>Alcoholics need to be called out, not angrily, and with clear concern, but they still do need to be called out.
Alcohol is often demonized way more than it needs to be, like cutting out the booze is going to resolve all of this person's issues. That's kinda the problem. People don't get the root causes, and think alcohol is the devil. It exacerbates issues undoubtedly, but it's not so cut and dry.

Like, let's be frank here. People who tell me to stop drinking say "well, you're going to die early from this!" And I say, "thank god." I'm not suicidal, but I don't want kids or a wife, so why do I want to live to retirement? Why do I want to extend out sitting in the office every day, plainly miserable?

>>12367108
She's a Victoria's Secret supermodel, frogposter