Functional Alcoholic: "I Hate Drinking. I Want To Quit."

A caller who works six days a week and agrees he’s basically a functional alcoholic says what a lot of guys never say out loud: “I hate drinking. I want to quit.” 

He’s a veteran, and he’s been trying to manage it by drinking later in the evening instead of stopping. Michael doesn’t lecture him. He points out that picking up the phone was already a first step, talks about why recovery is a lifetime of thinking about it and not doing it, and calls out the rationalizations we use to keep drinking.

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