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My Biggest Why For Quitting Alcohol
And why it’s the reason I’ll stay sober
If you read my latest post about how this time I’ll be sober, you’ll also see earlier posts where I had been sober before, for about four years. A breakup and some insecurity came out, which I won’t excuse, but it caused me to slip back into drinking. And this time, I wasn’t quitting for a significant other, I was quitting for myself which made things hard. I had a bunch of starts and stops before I made the plan to officially go sober, and it was something obvious that made me know I could never go back.
While I have multiple reasons to stay sober, it was one night that really changed the trajectory of my life, forcing me to acknowledge that I needed to go sober this time, or it wouldn’t be great news for me or who and what I care about.
The main reason I wanted to give up drinking was because it wasn’t just about me, and it hasn’t been for a while. If you didn’t know, I got a puppy last year, bringing my household number to 5. It’s myself, two cats, an older dog, and then the puppy. Having that many lives depend on me generally…
